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Flowers worked in silver and set with turquoise give this bracelet its subject, drawing on one of the motifs at the core of Matl design. Flowers, with the dove and tiny bells, were among Matilde Poulat's chosen subjects, reminiscent of the whimsical imagery of contemporary Mexican folk art (Morrill, p. 216).
The figural impulse reflects Poulat's painter's training at the San Carlos Academy, which preceded her turn 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).
Floral bracelets of this kind appear in our dataset only occasionally, and they carry one of the motifs most central to the Matl idiom.
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