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A pair of silver earrings set with turquoise and coral, these distill the Matl manner into a matched pair: worked metal carrying inlaid color. The pairing grew from Matilde Poulat's post-Revolution turn toward a Mexican aesthetic drawn from Pre-Conquest and pueblo art, after her early painting training at the San Carlos Academy (Morrill, p. 216).
The turquoise and coral reflect the taller's hand craft, where Ricardo Salas was trained from boyhood to carve and set coral, turquoise, and other stones for the firm (Morrill, p. 216).
Earrings of this kind appear in our dataset with some regularity, more than the scarcer one-off forms, making them an approachable example of the Matl stone-set style.
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