turquoise coral pendant necklace

This pendant necklace keeps the Matl vocabulary concentrated in a large central form: worked silver, turquoise, coral, and a pendant composition designed to carry color as part of the structure. Heritage records the piece as marked MATL and 925, Mexico City, mid-20th century.

The design belongs to the workshop language associated with Matilde Poulat, where silver scrollwork and hand-set stones draw on Mexican folk and Pre-Conquest sources. Morrill connects that visual direction to Poulat's post-Revolution search for a Mexican aesthetic and to Ricardo Salas's stone-carving work for the firm.

Separating this necklace from the broader mixed gallery gives the object its own record while preserving the auction photograph as its primary evidence.