Art Institute of Chicago
Mirror with Jaguar or Coyote Mosaic
Teotihuacan
- Date
- 500–600 CE
- Medium
- Iron pyrite, jade, shell, magnatite or ilmenite, and spondylus shell
- Culture
- Mexico
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
For over 2,000 years, polished stone mirrors were an important component of Mesoamerican attire, ritual, and symbolic imagery. This mirror is made of a single sheet of polished pyrite stone and includes a jade jaguar mosaic at its center. Mirrors often functioned as emblems of rank and office and were typically worn at the small of the back. The depiction of such mirrors in ancient murals, as worn by warriors, priests, and state officials, attests to their importance in the spectacular art of ritual performance in Teotihuacan.
The authoritative record is held by Art Institute of Chicago. LinkedCulture surfaces this object and its connections; it does not alter institutional metadata.
Linked open data
Authority identifiers that link this record into the wider web of cultural data — stable references you can follow to the source.
- Object type
- AAT300312158
Related across collections
Semantically similar works from Art Institute of Chicago and other institutions.
Mirror Back with Great Goddess
Cleveland Museum of Art
Mirror with the Image of Avalokitesvara
Cleveland Museum of Art
Mirror with Jade Disk Inset
Cleveland Museum of Art
Double-tier Mirror
Cleveland Museum of Art
Mirror
Cleveland Museum of Art
Mural Fragment Depicting a Maguey Bloodletting Ritual
Art Institute of Chicago
Mirror with Deities and Kings
Cleveland Museum of Art
Round mirror with flying cranes surrounded by chrysanthemums
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Mirror
Cleveland Museum of Art
Mirror with Three Dragons
Cleveland Museum of Art
Pendant Plaque
Cleveland Museum of Art
Mirror with Four T's
Cleveland Museum of Art