Ear Ornament or Spindle Whorl with Modeled Design

Mexica (Aztec) (Valley of Mexico, Mexico)

1450–1521

Medium

Ceramic

Classification

Ceramics

Dimensions

1.6 × 2.5 cm (3 × 1 in.)

Culture

Valley of Mexico

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of the Americas

Credit line

Gift of Lydia Arms Avery Coonley-Ward

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
• Ornament and pattern
• 1400s
• Mexico
• Black, white and grey