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An amethyst ring concentrates the Matl workshop's decorative idiom into a single intimate form, the colored stone set against silver in the manner that defined Matilde Poulat's jewelry.
Poulat introduced the Matl mark in 1934, training first as a painter at the San Carlos Academy, and her designs joined the post-Revolutionary search for a Mexican aesthetic drawn from Pre-Conquest and folk sources (Morrill, p. 216). She found inspiration in the Mixtec gold jewelry discovered in 1932 at Monte Alban (Morrill, p. 216).
The setting reflects the workshop's command of carved and mounted stones; Ricardo Salas perfected the carving of coral, turquoise, and the other stones used throughout the jewelry (Morrill, p. 216).
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