Design 5102 necklace

The double-stamped reverse of this pendant necklace — "Margot de Taxco Sterling 925" alongside the Mexican government's Eagle 22 assay punch confirming .925 silver — signals a piece produced under the standards the workshop maintained from its founding in 1948. Design 5102 belongs to the enamel-on-silver line she launched in 1955, which Morrill (Mexican Silver, 1994) identifies as one of the workshop's major lines: a pendant of just over two inches carried on a sixteen-inch sterling chain, scaled for visibility and finished in the enamel-on-silver combination that defined the mature taller.

Morrill records that every numbered design was governed by a production book Margot wrote herself, specifying die counts, color options, assembly sequences, and clasp placement for each piece — a system that set precise limits on what her enamelers could do outside what she had determined on paper. The result, Morrill writes, was enamel necklaces that "continue to be glittering displays of color, texture, and technical perfection." The numbered catalog also carried a chronology: as Morrill explains, smaller design numbers generally correspond to earlier pieces, placing 5102 in the later, fully developed phase of the shop's enamel output.