Pair of Veracruz Pottery Whistling Rattle Figures

**First Time At Auction**

Pre-Columbian, Gulf Coast Mexico, Veracruz, ca. 550 to 950 CE. Two mold-made terracotta standing figures. First is a mother holding her child in one arm, the other outstretched, with a large beaded necklace and a broad headdress, all in a light-orange hue. Second is a buffware figure with wide-spread arms and legs, a blocky triangular head with a short crest on top, and twin tendril-form projections extending from the sides of its head. The vessels are filled with small terracotta balls, thereby making each a rattle, and both have whistle mouthpieces and tone holes which produce lovely sounds when blown into. Size of largest (buffware): 5" H (12.7 cm).

Provenance: private Boulder, Colorado, USA collection; ex-private Hambrick collection, Chicago, Illinois, USA

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Condition Report: Both figures have age-commensurate surface wear, small chips to peripheries, fading to details, with earthen and mineral deposits throughout, otherwise intact and very good.