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A butterfly worked in silver and set with turquoise, coral, and hardstone gives this necklace its subject, drawing on the natural imagery that ran through Matl design. Matilde Poulat's motifs, the dove and flowers among them, were reminiscent of the whimsical subjects of contemporary Mexican folk art, and a butterfly belongs to that same vocabulary of small living things (Morrill, p. 216).
The figural impulse reflects Poulat's painter's training at the San Carlos Academy, which preceded her turn to silver within the post-Revolution search for a Mexican aesthetic (Morrill, p. 216). The turquoise and coral reflect the hand-carved stones Ricardo Salas prepared for the firm (Morrill, p. 216).
Butterfly necklaces of this kind show the folk-natural strain of Matl design at fuller scale.
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