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Amethyst set into sterling at the neck gives this necklace its color, the purple stone carried on a structure of modeled silver in the manner Antonio Pineda favored. The piece reads as a balance: silver supplying the form, the stone supplying the warmth.
That balance defines Pineda's modernist jewelry. He was, in Stromberg's account, a key figure in the pioneering silver design forged in Taxco between the 1930s and the 1970s, turning an innovative approach to metalwork into adornment for the body (Stromberg, p. 15). A silver-and-amethyst necklace is that ambition worn at the throat.
It came out of his taller in the usual way, Pineda conceiving the design and master smiths executing it in silver, adding their own marks beside his crown (Stromberg, p. 81), with his silver typically stamped 970 for a purity above sterling.
Dated around 1953, a Pineda necklace in silver and amethyst is the artist working his characteristic pairing of cool stone and modeled metal.
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