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Held by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (M.2013.4.18), this necklace carries the Feathers motif across the collarbone, where the repeating silver feather forms run as a continuous, articulated band over the chest. Dated to about 1943 to 1948, it belongs to the years when Hector Aguilar was working in his own established voice in Taxco silver.
The necklace is made of sterling silver set with obsidian. The black volcanic stone, quarried in Mexico, gives the piece its grounding contrast: cool dark insets against the worked silver feathers, a pairing of local material and modern form that the Taxco workshops made their own.
The design period places the necklace in the mid-1940s, the stretch when Aguilar's Taller Borda was turning out heavy, sculptural silver under his direction.
As a museum-held example, it stands as a fixed reference point for the Feathers design, a piece preserved in a public collection rather than circulating through the trade.
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