# Hector Aguilar artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/hector-aguilar/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T13:15:40.651Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Mexican
- Movements: Mexican modernism, Taxco silver renaissance
- Common media: Silver, Jewelry and metalwork

## About Hector Aguilar

Hector Aguilar (1905–1986) was a Mexican silversmith, jewelry designer, and workshop proprietor associated with Taxco's twentieth-century silver renaissance and the decorative-arts currents of Mexican modernism. He worked at William Spratling's Taller de Las Delicias before establishing Taller Borda in 1939. The workshop subsequently became a substantial producer of jewelry and metalwork for customers in Mexico and the United States. Collectors most often encounter Aguilar through silver objects connected with this Taxco workshop tradition. His identity as both a designer and workshop proprietor matters when researching an object: maker's marks, inscriptions, date, construction, and documented workshop association can help distinguish relevant production from works by unrelated people who share his name. The available source pack establishes his basic identity and workshop context, although it does not include a museum collection record, scholarly catalogue, or artist-estate resource.

## Common works and media

The collected identity sources characterize Aguilar primarily as a silversmith and jewelry designer whose Taller Borda produced jewelry and metalwork. Auction and appraisal research should therefore begin with silver jewelry, decorative metalwork, and other objects bearing relevant maker or workshop identifiers. The source pack does not document a reliable list of recurring motifs, named series, edition structures, or specific object forms, so those details should be established from the individual object's marks, construction, documentation, and securely matched comparables rather than inferred from the artist name alone.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily's matched public-auction data provides a starting point for comparing works attributed to Hector Aguilar, but aggregate results should not be treated as a prediction for an individual object. Useful comparisons should align as closely as possible on object type, medium, size, date or workshop period, condition, restoration, marks and inscriptions, provenance, and attribution confidence. Sale venue, reporting conventions, and whether stated prices include premiums can also affect comparisons. Because the source pack contains differing record totals and the name Hector Aguilar can refer to other people, appraisal research should first confirm that each record concerns the Mexican silversmith and an appropriately comparable object.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with matched public auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Private sales, incomplete feeds, and attribution changes may not be represented.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108864369
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9ctor_Aguilar_(silversmith)
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/hector-aguilar/