Chocolate Pot

ca. 1725 Overall with lid: H: 6 7/16 in. (16.4 cm) Citation Source image

Indigenous peoples in the Americas consumed products made from cacao beans and fruit as early as 1900 BCE. In the early 16th century, Spanish friars brought cacao from newly established colonies in South and Central America and introduced chocolate to the wealthy elite of Euro...

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34664
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Acquired by Henry Walters, Baltimore; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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