id: 155491
accession number: 1990.212
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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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CREATORS
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measurements: Overall: 12.5 x 8.5 cm (4 15/16 x 3 3/8 in.)
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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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:
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.
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