"Cuban" Loving Cup
19th century
Artists
Dimensions
47 cm (18 1/2 in.) 28 cm (11 in.)
Provenance
Harvard College, Gift from a group of teachers. The cup was presented to Harvard college by a group of Cuban teachers at the close of their period of instruction here during the summer of 1900. The group numbered eleven hundred students. Fifty cents was collected from each one and five hundred silver dollars were made into this cup.
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