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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