Name/Title
FigurineEntry/Object ID
2004.43.22Description
Felt bust of a woman. The face is artistically structured with a distinct seam beneath the eyebrows and needle-felting lines along the sides of the nose to the bottom of the chin. The felt is painted to resemble white skin, with pink lips and brown eyebrows. Eyes are created with brown sequins as irises and lacquered embroidery thread as eyelashes. The figure has brown hair made of thread. The body is covered in a partial garment made of white cotton with a wide neckline.
The bust is wearing a headdress consisting of a padded roll placed on the center top of the head over a tight cap with a rectangular tail in the back. All pieces are made from blue and green imitation damask. The front of the pad is decorated with a pink bead surrounded by faux pearls. There is a strip of beaded velvet trip looping from the pad behind the figure's head.
The bust is inserted into a Styrofoam base with two metal wires. The base has a paper label that reads, “#8 15th c ESCOFFIAN".Use
Made to illustrate fashionable headwear of the fifteenth century.Context
Made by Mirren Barrie of Waterbury Center, VermontAcquisition
Accession
2004.43Source or Donor
Staudt, Jane M.Acquisition Method
GiftLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
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FigurineNomenclature Secondary Object Term
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SculptureNomenclature Class
ArtNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication Objects