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五 51. Group of three geese with detailed work to the eyes, feathers and waves, the central parent and two young swimming amongst lotus

十 flowers, leaves and branches above crested waves swirling from the central base, the stone white with russet markings.

一 4 ½ inches, 11.5 cm long.

Qianlong, 1736-1795.
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鵝 • From an English private collection.

白 • Purchased from John Sparks, October 1960.
玉 • A goose and young with a lotus branch in their mouths, from the Bei Lou Tong collection, is illustrated by Sydney Fung &

Yeung Chun-tong in Exquisite Jade Carving, an exhibition presented by the University and Art Gallery, The University of Hong

乾 Kong, 1996, no. 98, p. 122, and is also illustrated by Gerard Tsang in Chinese Jade Animals, An Exhibition Presented by the
隆 Urban Council Hong Kong and Organised by the Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1996, no. 163, pp. 172/3; a further pair of

geese, from the collection of Alfred and Ivy Clark, was included by Knapton & Rasti in their exhibition of Asian Art, 2002,

1960 no. 67; a single goose with lotus flowers and leaves above crested swirling waves on the underside, in the Walker Art Centre,

Minneapolis, is illustrated by Joan M. Hartman in Chinese Jade of Five Centuries, plate 4, pp. 46/7.

年 • A double-duck group with lotus flowers, leaves and branches above waves in the British Museum is illustrated by Jessica Rawson

購 in Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, no. 26:21, p. 377.

于 • The swirling waves on the underside is a motif that first appears in the early Ming dynasty and is illustrated on a brushwasher

古 in the Hong Kong Museum of Art, by James C. Y. Watt in Chinese Jades from Han to Ch’ing, an exhibition held at Asia House
董 Gallery, New York, 1980, no. 111, pp. 134/5.
商 • The goose, e or hong, is a symbol of marriage, harmony and fidelity; depicted together with the lotus, hehua, it is symbolic of
John Sparks
numerous progeny.

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