DepartmentLatin America

Mate Cup

NameCup

Artist Artist unrecorded

Date19th century

Place madePeru, South America

MediumGourd, silver

Dimensions5 × 3 1/4 × 4 3/4 in. (12.7 × 8.255 × 12.065 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of the I.B.M. Corporation, A.1962.1.19

Object numberA.1962.1.19

Collections

Andean Folk Art

DescriptionGourd shell, engraved, silver mounted. Pair of birds on wide rim incised with birds as well, and connected by hinged straps to silver bottom with ball and claw tripod feet. The silver handle is bent up to rim of vessel like the stem of a gourd.