Design 5240 Winged Cornucopia Earrings

Design 5240 Winged Cornucopia Earrings condense Margot de Taxco's necklace vocabulary into a paired form. Each earring places an amethyst cabochon inside a curling silver surround, then lifts into a fan of ridged, winglike silver. The pair is not simply a reduced necklace link. It preserves the same curl, beadwork, stone setting, and flared movement in a compact vertical composition.

The earrings show how Margot's workshop could translate a design family across forms while keeping each object resolved on its own terms. The amethyst cabochons anchor the composition, and the surrounding silver shifts between smooth borders, beaded arcs, and raised ribs. Patina gathers in the recesses, sharpening the relief and making the curved surfaces read as sculptural rather than flat decoration.

Design 5240 belongs to the numbered system associated with Margot de Taxco's mature Taxco production. That system allowed related pieces to share a formal language while adapting to the scale and use of each object. In these earrings, the design's cornucopia or wing profile becomes intimate and frontal, suited to the ear rather than to the continuous sweep of a necklace.

The result is a strong example of Margot's silver and stone work outside the enamel jewelry for which she is best known. The earrings rely on rhythm, relief, and color placement, not painted surface. They show the same controlled exuberance that defines her workshop: organic reference transformed into a precise, wearable silver form.