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Description: | Hollow whistle in the form of a bird perched on a small domed base. Relief-moulded with detailed feathers and leafy base, on one side of which is moulded the number 24 beneath the bird's claw. Bird's wings picked out in underglaze blue and brown, it's beak and eyes in brown, and chest feathers in dabs of bright green and brown. Mould line clearly visible along the bird's chest and back, hole at the end of tail forming mouthpiece, with two further holes under tail feathers and in back, allowing air to escape.
Material: ceramics
Material: earthenware
Material: relief-moulded
Material: painted underglaze
Material: cobalt blue
whistle made in Germany, Europe, (1922.1603). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.2161 | Go to resource |
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