Information
- Title
- Aquilla (beaker), previously known as ‘The Cup of Montezuma’
- Object Number
- 2021-116
- Medium
- Gold (-copper alloy?)
- Dates
- 1400–1530 CE
- Dimensions
- h. 11 × diam. 8.3 cm (4 5/16 × 3 1/4 in.), 170g
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund
- Period
- Late Intermediate
- Place made
- South America, Peru, North-central coast
- Inscriptions
- carved in bottom: S 12
- Materials
- Alexander von Humboldt, Vues des Cordillères et monumens des peuples indigènces de l'Amèrique vol. 1 (Paris:1813), p. 227
- Alexander von Humboldt and Helen Maria Williams, Researches concerning the Institutions and Monuments of the Ancient Inhabitants of America with Descriptions and Views of some of the Most Striking Scenes in the Cordilleras (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1814)., p. 188
- “Antiquités Mexicaines,” Bulletin des Sciences historiques, Antiquités, Philologie, 15(1830): 244-246., pp. 244-246
- William Robertson, A general history of North and South America (London: Mayhew, Isaac, and Co., 1834). , p. 267
- William Robertson. The History of the Discovery and Settlement of America (Edinburgh: T. Nelson, 1842).
- Evan Nepean, Mexican antiquities from the island of Sacrificious: from excavations made in the year 1840, by Captain Evan Nepean whilst in command of H. M. Ship (1843)., illus., frontispiece
- "Proceedings at the Meetings of the Archaeological Institute, May 4, 1860," The Archaeological Journal XVII (London: 1860): pp. 174-185., p. 181
- The Winter Show, Park Avenue Armory Friday, January 24, 2020 - Sunday, February 2, 2020
- Auction, Rieunier & Associés 2009
- Auction, Christie's London 1973
- Loan Collection, South Kensington Museum, London 1862
- Special Exhibition, Archaeological Institution Rooms 1860
- Society of Antiquaries Thursday, April 18, 1765
- Society of Antiquaries Meeting Sunday, September 14, 1738
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