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A crown worked in silver and set with turquoise, this pin carries the kind of devotional and ceremonial imagery that ran alongside the Matl workshop's jewelry. Religious and figural pieces were a real part of the taller's output, which Ricardo Salas recalled as including about one hundred different religious pieces (Morrill, p. 216).
The figural subject reflects Matilde Poulat's painter's background, trained at the San Carlos Academy before she turned to silver within the post-Revolution search for a Mexican aesthetic (Morrill, p. 216). The turquoise reflects the hand-carved stones Ricardo Salas prepared for the firm (Morrill, p. 216).
Crown pins of this kind appear in our dataset only occasionally, and they connect to the devotional and figural current of Matl design.
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