Drinking Cup
900–1519
- Medium
- pottery with burnished, colored slips
- Dimensions
- Overall: 12.5 x 8.5 cm (4 15/16 x 3 3/8 in.)
- Genre
- sculpture
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
Mexico, Cholula(?), Mixteca-Puebla style
About
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 pulque, a fermented beverage made from the sap of the maguey cactus.