Fine vintage Mexican modernist style necklace Margot De Taxco Mexico and dating to the 1950/ 1960s.
Stylish highly collectible modernist wave design in sterling with Turquoise by Margot de Taxco
Origin: Taxco, Mexico with makers mark Margot de Taxco number 5116
Period: Circa 1950`s/ 1960s
Style: modernist wave pattern chocker necklace
Length 16 inch 40 cm weight 31 grams
An exceptional addition to any collection of Taxco silver, vintage Mexican jewelry, or 20th-century Latin American decorative arts.
Ref., Margot De Taxco
The Little Book Of Mexican Silver Trade And Hallmarks
New revised Edition by Bille Hougart
Margot van Voorhies (?-1985). Born in the United States, Margot married Antonio Castillo in Taxco, Mexico, where she helped her husband launch the company Los Castillo. She created many of the early designs for Los Castillo before the marriage ended in 1946. She opened her own shop, Margot de Taxco, in 1947.
Margot is known primarily for high quality work in champlevé enamel, the production of which began in 1955. Another “Margot de Taxco” shop was located in Mexico City at Juarez, Number 14, featuring “well-designed enamel inlays… also silver.”
Following a series of labor and government-imposed financial burdens the shop went bankrupt in 1977. A few of the former silversmiths at Margot were allowed to continue to use some of her molds after the shop finally closed in 1978. The silversmiths identified to date include Miguel Arias, Jeronimo Fuentes...
Category
20th Century Mexican Furniture