Polished and
incised coconut shell, ornamental silver handles and base, silver
rivets
New Spain
Seventeenth/Eighteenth century
In Colonial
Mexico, fashionable men and women drank hot chocolate from cups
like this one. Coconut shell and silver cups were produced in mass
quantities from the seventeenth century onward and were often listed
in inventories of private property of the wealthy Mexicans.
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