Design 5240 Winged Cornucopia Necklace

Design 5240 Winged Cornucopia Necklace shows Margot de Taxco working without enamel but with the same disciplined drawing that made her workshop famous. Each silver link curls around an amethyst cabochon, then opens into a ridged, winglike flare. The repeated modules carry the necklace around the neck as a continuous collar, so the design reads through rhythm, relief, and violet color rather than through a single pendant focus.

The necklace depends on small changes of height and direction. Beaded borders, grooved ribs, tucked scrolls, and rounded stone settings create a compact sculptural surface, while the darkened recesses help the raised silver edges read clearly. The amethyst cabochons soften that relief with pools of color, interrupting the silver just enough to pace the sequence of links.

The design number 5240 and the Margot de Taxco workshop attribution place the necklace within the mature production language of Margot van Voorhies Carr. Her shop was known for tightly controlled designs, specialized labor, and a numbered system that kept related forms coherent across necklaces, bracelets, earrings, and other variants. Here that system appears in silver and stone rather than enamel, but the underlying logic is the same: ornament, construction, and movement are designed together.

As a necklace, the design translates organic sources into a modern modular structure. The curling shell or cornucopia profile suggests natural growth, while the linked repetition gives the object its clarity as wearable design. It is recognizably Margot de Taxco: elaborate, animated, and governed by drawing, with color used to intensify the silver rather than distract from it.