Dove Bracelet with Turquoise

The dove, the motif most identified with Matilde Poulat, anchors this silver bracelet set with turquoise. Among her chosen subjects, the dove, with flowers and tiny bells, recalls the whimsical imagery of contemporary Mexican folk art and became a signature of the workshop (Morrill, p. 216).

The figural bird reflects Poulat's painter's eye, 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 stones the taller carved and set by hand, a craft Ricardo Salas perfected for the firm (Morrill, p. 216).

Dove bracelets of this kind carry the motif most central to the MATL idiom.