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Turquoise set into an eagle necklace brings one of the most recognizably Mexican stones together with one of its most charged national emblems, the additional inlay deepening the color of a figure already loaded with meaning. The silver frames the eagle while the stone gives it life.
Los Castillo, founded in Taxco in 1939, habitually paired Mexican iconography with native stone, an instinct rooted in the workshop's stone-inlay tradition (Morrill, p. 206). Turquoise is a natural choice for the eagle motif.
Turquoise eagle necklaces by the workshop are seen at market only occasionally.
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