**First Time At Auction**

Pre-Columbian, Southern Mexico to Guatemala, Maya, Late Classic period, ca. 550 to 900 CE; Colombia, Tairona region, ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. A charming set of hand-built pottery vessels. First is a Maya creamware poison bottle depicting a stylized turkey with plumed wings, a petite head, and a feathered tail. Within the cylindrical spout are vermilion traces of the original poison. Second is a Tairona brownware jarlet exhibiting a Janiform presentation with puffy features surrounding a perky nose. Size of largest (Maya turkey): 2.5" W x 2.125" H (6.4 cm x 5.4 cm).

Provenance: ex-private Schmitt collection, Indiana, USA

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Both vessels have minor abrasions to bodies and raised features, with fading to original coloration, and light encrustations within, otherwise intact and very good. Turkey jar has a small but stable fissure along body. Light earthen deposits throughout.