Design 5410 Bracelet

A bracelet marked 5410 occupies a precise position in the documented output of a studio built on systematic production discipline. Margot de Taxco maintained a numbered design inventory across her career — Morrill notes that smaller numbers generally correspond to earlier pieces — placing 5410 in the workshop's more mature working years, when her enamel-on-silver program was well established (Morrill, *Mexican Silver*, 1994).

The production behind each numbered piece was deliberately controlled. Margot maintained a design book specifying color options, die counts, and assembly sequences, meaning the enamel choices on any bracelet in the series were documented, not improvised (Morrill, p. 168). The champlevé enamel technique she developed and refined became one of her major jewelry lines — her enameled bracelets among the pieces Morrill cites as "glittering displays of color, texture, and technical perfection" (Morrill, p. 166).

Each example gives some account of the palette choices the system permitted. A signed piece at this number, in sterling with enamel, connects directly to Margot's fully realized approach: a discipline of design, color, and technique sustained across decades.