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Margot de Taxco is a celebrated silversmith and artist known for pioneering the designs of Mexican jewelry. She is best known for her silver and enamel pieces. Shop a collection of expertly vetted Margot de Taxco jewelry from some of the world’s top boutiques on 1stDibs.
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Margot de Taxco Mexican Sterling Silver Comedy & Tragedy Mask Cufflinks
By Margot De Taxco
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine pair of Mexican Modernist cufflinks.
By Margot de Taxco.
Each with masks of the Greek muses of Comedy & Tragedy.
Set with post (that are mounted on an angle) with toggle ba...
Category
20th Century Mexican Modernist Cufflinks
Materials
Sterling Silver
Mid-Century Signed Margot de Taxco Modernist Sterling Silver Necklace
By Margot De Taxco
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine Mexican modernist necklace.
By Margot de Taxco.
In sterling silver.
With bead-set lozenge shaped links supporting a conforming pendant (that also converts to a brooch).
Mo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mexican Modern Chain Necklaces
Materials
Sterling Silver
Margot de Taxco Silver Confetti Enamel Peony Flower 1950s Clip On Earrings
By Margot De Taxco
Located in North Attleboro, MA
Gorgeous wearable art by renowned jewelry designer Margot de Taxco. Elegant and fun all at once, these earrings are sterling silver peonies with champlevé white enamel and gold "confetti" flecks throughout. There's a lot of detail to the flowers including dimensional petals and center stamens made of tiny silver dollops.
Both pieces marked 925, Hecho En Mexico, Eagle 16 (Margot's personal Eagle Assay stamp). Each measure 1.5"L x 1"W.
Very good condition with patina and minor wear from age and use. No enamel loss. Some crazing visible when magnified.
About Margot de Taxco:
Margot Van Voorhies was born in 1896 in San Francisco, California. In 1937, forty-one-year-old divorcée Margot Van Voorhies left San Francisco on a trip to Mexico City. Fate threw her into the path of Don Antonio Castillo, who took her to Taxco, a Mexican hotbed for the design, crafting, and production of silver objects, in particular jewelry and housewares.
Castillo and Margot married. At the time, Castillo was working for William Spratling, a pioneer in Mexican silversmithing. He brought Margot into the business as a designer, helping her to transform her paper creations into three-dimensional forms in silver. In 1939, the pair, along with other members of Castillo’s family, opened shop as Los Castillo Taller (Taller is Spanish for “Workshop”), with Margot as the top designer.
After ten years, the marriage between Castillo and Van Voorhies dissolved, as did their professional association. Margot went on to open her own shop in 1948, taking the name Margot de Taxco, by which she is best known today.
At the peak of her career, Margot, who designed each piece herself, had two dozen silversmiths and a dozen enamellists in her employ to execute her vision. Margot attracted talented craftsmen who later went on to cement their own reputations, such as Sigi Pineda, Miguel Melendez...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mexican Modernist Clip-on Earrings
Materials
Silver, Enamel
Charm Bracelet Iconic Book Piece Margot De Taxco Mexican Modernist Pioneer
By Margot De Taxco
Located in Southbury, CT
This silver cherub charm bracelet by Margot de Taxco is featured in the book, "Margot Van Voorhies Carr The Art of Mexican Enamelwork," by Penny C. Morrill. You will find it on page ...
Category
Vintage 1950s Mexican Baroque Revival Charm Bracelets
Materials
Silver
Margot De Taxco Sterling Silver Leaf Bracelet
By Margot De Taxco
Located in Venice, CA
Margot De Taxco Sterling Silver Leaf Bracelet
A beautiful sterling silver hinged clamper bracelet by Margot De Taxco, made in Mexico, in a modernistic, stylized leaf design with fl...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mexican Modernist Clamper Bracelets
Materials
Sterling Silver
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Margot Reticulated Silver and Enamel Serpent Necklace
By Margot De Taxco
Located in New York, NY
Margot of Taxco - Margot van Voorhies Carr - Magnificent reticulated Serpent in Turquoise Blue enamel with accented raised enamel joints Early mark - Late 40-s. Very exotic and hea...
Category
Vintage 1940s Mexican Modern Drop Necklaces
Materials
Silver