Design 5698 Necklace

Design 5698 belongs to the form that defines Margot de Taxco's reputation: a pendant necklace in sterling silver and enamel, numbered within the design system she maintained across decades of studio production. Morrill documents that Margot refined the champlevé enamel-on-silver technique — first initiated at Los Castillo — into one of her major categories of jewelry, work she described as uniting "elegance of line and sensuality of color" (Morrill, Mexican Silver, 1994, p. 166). A fully signed, hallmarked example from that central line is a direct document of her mature practice.

The pendant, approximately two inches by one and five-eighths, hangs on a sixteen-and-a-half-inch chain. Struck on the reverse are both the "Margot de Taxco Sterling" workshop signature and Eagle 22, the Mexican government's official silver assay mark confirming production in an authorized Taxco workshop. The consistency of marks, chain length, and pendant dimensions across documented appearances of this design reflects the disciplined production practice behind Margot's numbered line.

Design 5698 represents an authenticated, numbered entry from the enamel-on-silver line Morrill identifies as the center of her achievement.