Cleveland Museum of Art

Drinking Cup

Date

900–1519

Medium

pottery with burnished, colored slips

Culture

Mexico, Cholula(?), Mixteca-Puebla style

Department

Art of the Americas

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

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. Pulque , once the drink of gods and rulers, is now available in a can.

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