Lot 301

Mexican Taxco Silver Necklace by Bernice Goodspeed

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Mexican Taxco Silver Necklace by Bernice Goodspeed
Mexican Taxco Silver Necklace by Bernice Goodspeed
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Mexican Taxco Silver Necklace by Bernice Goodspeed

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

Starting Bid: $500

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by Artemis Fine Arts
June 11, 2026 9:00 AM MDT
Live Auction
686 S. Taylor Avenue
Suite 108
Louisville, CO, US 80027

Bernice Goodspeed (American-born Mexican, d. 1971)., . Silver necklace, n.d. Stamped "Sterling" and "Taxco / Mexico" surrounding the maker's mark "B." A sterling silver necklace by Bernice Goodspeed, the American-born cultural anthropologist and silversmith who settled in Taxco in 1938 with her husband, the Hungarian-American artist Carl Pappe, where the couple operated a studio and gallery that became one of the town's noted purveyors of silver jewelry informed by pre-Columbian form and ornament. The necklace is composed of articulated crescent-shaped links, each worked with a matte ground set against raised beaded borders along the curved edge and engraved scrolling volutes at the lower tip, the overall silhouette suggesting a stylized feather or wing motif drawn loosely from Mesoamerican decorative tradition. Stamped with Goodspeed's maker's mark and "Sterling" on the reverse, the piece is a characteristic example of her mature Taxco output, where the formal vocabulary of ancient Mexico was translated through a mid-century modernist sensibility into jewelry that was at once archaeologically literate and eminently wearable, a balance she sustained until her death in 1971. Size: 17" L x 0.75" W (43.2 cm L x 1.9 cm W); silver quality: 94%; weight: 76.4 grams

Provenance: private New York, New York, USA collection

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Item # 201790

  • Condition: Intact, excellent, and wearable.

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$750 $1,499 $50
$1,500 $2,999 $100
$3,000 $7,499 $250
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