Mask from an Incense Burner Portraying the Old Deity of Fire

Teotihuacan (Teotihuacan, Mexico)

450–750 CE

Medium

Ceramic and pigment

Classification

Sculpture

Dimensions

36.9 × 33.5 cm (14 1/2 × 13 in.)

Culture

Valley of Mexico

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of the Americas

Credit line

Gift of Joseph P. Antonow

Rights

Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.

Who can see it

Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

View at the Art Institute of Chicago

• Sculpture
• Animals
• Birds
• Faith and religion
• 5th century
• Mexico
• Black, white and grey