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Worked silver set with turquoise, this bracelet is a clear statement of the Matl manner, in which inlaid color carries as much weight as the metal itself. That balance grew from Matilde Poulat's post-Revolution turn toward a Mexican aesthetic drawn from Pre-Conquest and pueblo art, after she left behind the painting she had studied at the San Carlos Academy (Morrill, p. 216).
The turquoise reflects the taller's hand craft. Ricardo Salas, who worked alongside his aunt from boyhood and collaborated so closely with her that their designs cannot easily be separated, was trained to carve and set turquoise, coral, and other stones for the firm (Morrill, p. 216).
Bracelets of this type recur in our dataset more than the scarcer one-off Matl forms, making them a recognizable and approachable example of the workshop's stone-set silver.
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