Mask from an Incense Burner Portraying the Old Deity of Fire

450–750 CE

Teotihuacan
Teotihuacan, Mexico

Status: On View, Gallery 136
Department: Arts of the Americas

Culture: Teotihuacan
Title: Mask from an Incense Burner Portraying the Old Deity of Fire
Place: Valley of Mexico (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 450 CE–750 CE
Medium: Ceramic and pigment
Dimensions: 36.9 × 33.5 cm (14 1/2 × 13 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Joseph P. Antonow
Reference Number: 1962.1073
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Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report(1962–1963), 29 (ill.).
Allen Wardwell, Primitive Art from the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1965), fig. 38 (ill.).
Elizabeth Kennedy Easby and John F. Scott, Before Cortes: Sculpture of Middle America, exh. cat. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1970), 158–59, cat. 123 (ill.).
Mary Helms, Middle America: A Culture History of Heartland and Frontiers (New York: Prentice Hall, 1975), 60, fig. 5.5 (ill.).
Richard Townsend, ed., The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago/Prestel Verlag, 1992), 5, 118 (detail), 381, cat. 250 (ill).
Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope, Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), 176–177, cat. 150 (ill.).

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Before Cortes: Sculpture of Middle America, Sept. 30, 1970–Jan. 3, 1971, cat. 123.
Art Institute of Chicago, The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes, Oct. 10, 1992–Jan. 3, 1993, cat. 250; traveled to Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Feb. 4–April 18, 1993, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 6–Aug. 15, 1993.
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago’s Dream, A World’s Treasure: the Art Institute, 1893-1993, Nov. 1, 1993–Jan. 9, 1994.

Joseph P. Antonow, Chicago, by Dec. 1962 [incoming permanent receipt RX4120, Dec. 10, 1962, copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1962.

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