The moulded figure depicts a female deity standing on a low, hollow rock work base, her hair in a high bun. She wears a long-sleeved dress; the collared undergarment is tied with a beribboned sash. She holds a flute in her right hand; to her left a fenghuang, partly obscured by her dress.
An identical figure from the Landesmuseum (inv. Nr. OP283) is published by Ekkehard Schmidtberger in 1990, p. 552, no. 323.
Another related figure from the collection of Auguste The Strong is in the Dresden collection (PO 110).
Judging from the attribute of a flute and being accompanied by a fenghuang, this figure could be Nongyu of the Liexianzhuan (Biographies of Immortals), who summoned the bird by playing the flute. In the West, the fenghuang was incorrectly called a ‘phoenix’.
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