Teotihuacan Huehueteotl brazier heads to auction at ARTEMIS x ARTE

On June 11, 2026, a volcanic stone brazier featuring Huehueteotl, the ancient Mesoamerican fire deity, will be auctioned in Louisville, Colorado, as part of ARTEMIS x ARTE | Pre-Columbian, Spanish Colonial Art. This piece, dating back to Teotihuacan's Classic Period (approximately 450–650 CE), is valued between $25,000 and $37,500, with an opening bid set at $12,500. The brazier portrays Huehueteotl as an elderly figure, seated and hunched beneath a circular vessel adorned with bar and diamond patterns. His expressive face showcases wide recessed eyes, a sunken toothless mouth, earrings, and a knotted loincloth, and the piece stands at 15.25 inches tall.