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Built as a collar, this turquoise- and amethyst-set silver necklace gives the Matl workshop's signature stone palette a substantial, close-fitting form around the neck. The collar shape carries the dense, baroque metalwork and colored stones as a single broad statement.
Colored-stone setting was the taller's defining craft; Ricardo Salas was singled out for perfecting the carving of turquoise, coral, and other stones used in the jewelry (Morrill, p. 216). The turquoise-and-amethyst pairing became one of the most recognizable Matl combinations, and a collar gives it a generous canvas.
Matilde Poulat introduced the "Matl" mark in 1934 as part of the post-Revolution search for a Mexican aesthetic rooted in Pre-Conquest and pueblo sources (Morrill, p. 216).
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