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A silver pendant set with turquoise and coral, this piece carries the Matl workshop's signature pairing of worked metal and color into a single hanging form. The combination grew from Matilde Poulat's post-Revolution turn toward a Mexican aesthetic rooted in Pre-Conquest and pueblo art, after her early training in painting at the San Carlos Academy (Morrill, p. 216).
The turquoise and coral reflect the taller's hand craft, where Ricardo Salas perfected the carving and setting of coral, turquoise, and other stones for the firm's jewelry (Morrill, p. 216).
Pendants of this kind appear in our dataset with some regularity, more than the scarcer one-off forms, making them an accessible example of the Matl stone-set style.
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