id:			155491
accession number:	1990.212
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1990.212
updated:		2022-09-22 10:25:29.223000

Drinking Cup, 900–1519. Mexico, Cholula(?), Mixteca-Puebla style. Pottery with burnished, colored slips; overall: 12.5 x 8.5 cm (4 15/16 x 3 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener 1990.212

title:				Drinking Cup
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creation date:			900–1519
creation date earliest:		900
creation date latest:		1519
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creditline:			Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener
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culture:	Mexico, Cholula(?), Mixteca-Puebla style
technique:	pottery with burnished, colored slips
department:	Art of the Americas
collection:	AA - Mesoamerica
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 12.5 x 8.5 cm (4 15/16 x 3 3/8 in.)
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PROVENANCE

	Purchased by Benedict Crowell, Jr., 1958, gift  to James C. and Florence C, Gruener
	date: ?-1958
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	James C. [1903-1990] and Florence C. [1908-1982] Gruener, Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 1958-1990
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 1990
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fun fact: 
<em>Pulque</em>, once the drink of gods and rulers, is now available in a can.

digital description: 
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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