id: 155491 accession number: 1990.212 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1990.212 updated: 2020-11-04 21:32:48.043000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 900-1519 creation date earliest: 900 creation date latest: 1519 current location: creditline: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gruener copyright: --- culture: Mexico, Cholula(?), Mixteca-Puebla style technique: pottery with burnished, colored slips department: Art of the Americas collection: AA - Mesoamerica type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 12.5 x 8.5 cm (4 15/16 x 3 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Purchased by Benedict Crowell, Jr., 1958, gift to James C. and Florence C, Gruener date: ?-1958 footnotes: citations: James C. [1903-1990] and Florence C. [1908-1982] Gruener, Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1958-1990 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1990 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Pulque, 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 pulque, a fermented beverage made from the sap of the maguey cactus. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.212/1990.212_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.212/1990.212_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.212/1990.212_full.tif