IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 167200 accession number: C.5-2009 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Cream earthenware, thrown, hand-modelled, and painted with pale blue, yellow, and pale brown glazes. The woman has a domed hollow skirt, a narrow body with two applied, bun-like breasts, and long arms made from rolls of clay, which rest on her skirt, as she holds her non-existent hands together. She has a Janus-like head with a flat woman’s face on the front, with a large applied nose, incised mouth and round eyes, and a haloe of pinched clay hair, glazed pale brown. On the back there are two eye holes, and a snout which forms the mouth of the whistle. Her skirt has a wide blue band at the bottom, above which is a circle of oval dabs of blue and yellow with a narrow blue band above. Her breasts are blue, and she has a blue choker with a yellow spot at the front. object type: Earthenware painted in pale blue, yellow and pale brown glazes title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: the potter, La Badia, near Orvieto, Umbria LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Dr Alberto Satolli STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/167200 PEOPLE ------------------- woman CATEGORIES ------ category: earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 2008 - 2009 creation date earliest: 2008 creation date latest: 2009 culture: 21st Century, Early CREATORS -------- maker: Biancalana, Paola DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 24.2