
Collection Online as of September 27, 2023
Earthenware with colored slips
Diameter: 7.9 x 11 cm (3 1/8 x 4 5/16 in.); Overall: 8 cm (3 1/8 in.)
Bequest of Jane Taft Ingalls 1962.249
233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region
The nobility may have used these goblets for a chocolate beverage or for pulque, made from the
fermented sap of the maguey cactus. Both are painted with the precision and brilliant colors for which the Mixteca-Puebla style is renowned, and they carry some of the same motifs, such as the band of stylized animal heads at the top. The smaller bowl has a rattle base.