Rooster Mosaic Brass Box

This broad hinged box turns a flat brass form into a field of movement, with abstract rooster shapes crossing the glass mosaic lid in red, blue, white, and brass-toned accents. The bird forms are not naturalistic. They are broken into colored planes, so the lid reads as a modernist composition as much as a decorative surface.

The auction record describes a vintage hand-wrought brass box with a covered hinged design, glass tile mosaic, and incised maker mark to the underside, measuring 1.75 inches high by 8 inches wide by 6 inches deep. Its scale makes the mosaic lid the main event, with the brass body acting as a thin frame.

Teran boxes like this matter because they show how Taxco workshops carried modern design into household objects, not only jewelry. The box keeps the usefulness of a table object while presenting the lid as a small, self-contained mosaic panel.