Flower-Shaped Ear Ornaments

Mexica (Aztec) (Tenochtitlan, Mexico)

1400–1500

Medium

Ceramic and gold foil

Classification

Ceramics

Dimensions

Each: 5.7 × 2.9 cm (2 1/4 × 1 1/8 in.)

Culture

Mexico

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of the Americas

Credit line

Pauline S. Armstrong Endowment

Rights

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

Who can see it

Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

View at the Art Institute of Chicago

• Ceramics
• Flowers and plants
• Ornament and pattern
• 1400s
• Mexico
• Orange