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SALVADOR VACA TERAN (Mexican 1920-1974) A BRASS AND GLASS MOSAIC PANEL "Danza del Jaguar," for La India Bonita, Mexico City, the rectangular panel with an Olmec style caped dancing figure wearing a mottled bright yellow jaguar skin costume and headdress highlighted with inset brass plaques, in his left hand he grasps a bunch of greenery while his extended right hand reaches towards a fire contained within a circular brazier, the background executed in grisaille, with glazed tile signature plaque dated 1958 and title plaque, the panel with thin copper inner frame mounted on red painted plywood panel. Height: 36 3/8" Width: 24 3/8" NOTE: Trained at the Taller de Las Delicias workshops established by William Spratling in Taxco, Salvador Vaca Teran was a founding member of the Los Castillo workshops in 1939. Together with his four cousins Antonio, Jorge, Miguel, and Justo Castillo and Antonio's wife Margot van Voorhies, the Los Castillos workshops became renowned for their inventive combinations of metals, indigenous stones, and glass in their repertoire of silver design. In 1952 Teran relocated to Mexico City where he established a new workshop "La India Bonita" which at it's height employed twenty-five trained silversmiths.

  • Condition: In overall good condition with no evidence of loss, cracking, or restoration to glass mosaic tessera, minor surface rubbing to inlaid brass plaques, wear and rubbing to plywood panel.

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