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Drinking Cup
900-1519
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
After about the year 800, several Mixtec kingdoms developed in the regions known today as Oaxaca and Puebla in southern Mexico. Mixtec artists excelled in creating small-scale, fine works of art, including polychrome pottery. A Mixtec noble may have used this well-painted goblet to drink chocolate or <em>pulque,</em> a fermented beverage made from the sap of the maguey cactus.
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Details
- Title: Drinking Cup
- Date Created: 900-1519
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 12.5 x 8.5 cm (4 15/16 x 3 3/8 in.)
- Provenance: Purchased by Benedict Crowell, Jr., 1958, gift to James C. and Florence C, Gruener, James C. [1903-1990] and Florence C. [1908-1982] Gruener, Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Type: Sculpture
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1990.212
- Medium: pottery with burnished, colored slips
- Fun Fact: <em>Pulque</em>, once the drink of gods and rulers, is now available in a can.
- Department: Art of the Americas
- Culture: Mexico, Cholula(?), Mixteca-Puebla style
- Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener
- Collection: AA - Mesoamerica
- Accession Number: 1990.212
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