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Paper pulpboard drink coaster (portavasos) with anthropomorphic cocktail-glass illustration
Object/Artifact
Four identical round absorbent pulpboard coasters, cream-colored, printed in a single brown/gold ink. Design is a line-drawn personified stemmed cocktail glass (coupe/martini form) with a citrus wedge on the rim, a smiling face, arms and legs, appearing to dance or step over a drinking straw, flanked by atomic-style starbursts and motion lines. No text on the visible face.
2025.1.222
Belonged to Leopoldo Arús Gálvez
The Cabrera Arús family collection
2025.1
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
Date: Undetermined; no date present. The atomic-starburst graphic idiom is suggestive of mid-century design, but that is a stylistic impression only. Cannot be confirmed within the 1959–1990 collection range and may fall outside it.
Diameter: 9
Materials: Absorbent paper pulpboard (coaster / "beer-mat" stock), printed ink (tentative — based on appearance). Technique: Single-color printing (letterpress or offset, inferred) on pressed pulpboard.
Good
Leopoldo Arús Gálvez
owner
Havana
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
use
Subject: anthropomorphized stemmed cocktail glass with citrus garnish and straw; mid-century commercial-graphic style. No brand or bar name to attribute.