Emma Carlow: Partridge Ceramic Whistle

This ceramic Partridge Whistle has been exclusively created by renowned artist Emma Carlow for YSP Shops, to coincide with the exhibition One to Give. One to Take Away, by Jordy Kerwick.

This series of whistles is inspired by The Bestiaire d’amour by Richard de Fournival. Richard de Fournival was a thirteenth century French writer, best known for his Bestiaire d'amour - Richard's Bestiaire is not a traditional bestiary. Instead of using animal characteristics to illustrate a moral or allegorical teaching, Richard used bestiary themes and animals to plead his case to an unnamed lady who he claims to love, but who does not love him in return.

Partridge:
When the partridge has laid her eggs, another partridge will steal them to raise the chicks as her own, but when when the chicks are grown and can fly, they hear the call of their true mother and fly to her, abandoning the false mother. As an egg is without life when laid and does not live until it is hatched, so a man who is captured by love is dead and does not live until he is taken as a lover. 

- Materials: ceramic
- Size approx. H105 x L65 x D30mm