18TH-19TH CENTURY

The subject matter and shape of this small, fine white carving follows in the tradition of other small white jade pebbles carved as a recumbent goose, such as the example dated late Song-early Ming in the Guan-fu Collection illustrated by J. C. Y. Watt in Chinese Jades from Han to Ch'ing, Asia Society, New York, 1980, p. 97, no. 82.