New styles and Influences section from the Grandeur of Viceregal Mexico exhibition
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Spice Container

spice container - body

Notice the simple beauty of the slender handles. The body of the container is an elegant oval. There is much less decoration than in earlier colonial Mexican works of art.
 

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