Specialties

• Fine arts instructor at an industrial arts school in Mexico City.

1940

• Launched “Victoria” workshop.
• Necklace commissioned for Eleanor Roosevelt by friends (collar de abanicos) became one of her most popular pieces.

1953

• New workshop for her daughter and son-in-law named Cony and signed Victoria, Cony.

Style

• Worked in mixed metals & .980 silver (marked .925 by Mexican law.)
• Silver and copper combination with no backing so the front and back look the same.
• Early electroplating of silver on copper.

Produced

• Coffee & tea sets
• Lamps
• Pitchers
• Boxes
• Jewelry

Design Elements

• Stylized flowers
• Animals
• Fish
• Nature
• Pre-Columbian motifs.
• Unacceptable work was destroyed by the silversmith who made it.