DepartmentLatin America

Mate Cup

NameCup

Artist Artist unrecorded

DateEarly 19th century

Place madePotosí, Bolivia, South America

MediumMetal (silver)

Dimensions3 9/16 × 2 1/2 in. (9 × 6.3 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, bequest of the Estate of Edith Page Skewes-Cox Estate, A.1974.19.30

Object numberA.1974.19.30

Collections

Andean Folk Art

DescriptionThe mouth of the bowl has two cast bird figures facing one another and a band of incised leaf-feather like designs. The body is round, the handle is curved upward and ends in a sphere; the bowl rests on three legs that are cast bird feet.

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