MING DYNASTY (1368-1644)

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A PALE CELADON AND BLACKISH-BROWN JADE CARVING OF TWO RECUMBENT GEESE
MING DYNASTY (1368-1644)
The geese are shown side-by-side with the backs, tails and wing feathers lightly incised, and the undersides carved in low-relief with webbed feet. The smoothly polished stone is of pale celadon tone with some blackish-brown patches utilized to highlight the crowns and tails.
2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm.) wide

Provenance

The Property of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Tcherepnine; Christie’s New York, 29-30 November 1984, lot 433.‌
‌The Gerald Godfrey Collection.
The Gerald Godfrey Private Collection of Fine Chinese Jades; Christie's Hong Kong, 30 October 1995, lot 886.

Literature

Pacific Asia Museum, Chinese Jade: The Image from Within, Pasadena, 1986, p. 48, no. 81.
Wu Hung, “Tradition and Innovation: Ancient Chinese Jades in the Gerald Godfrey Collection,” Orientations, November 1986, p. 40, fig. 8.
C. W. Kelley, Stones of Virtue: Chinese Jades from the Gerald Godfrey Collection, Dayton, 1989, p. 47, no. 169.

Exhibited

Pasadena, Pacific Asia Museum, Chinese Jade: The Image from Within, 1986.
San Antonio, San Antonio Museum of Art, 1986.
Dayton, The Dayton Art Institute, January 1989.
Charlottesville, Worrell Family Offices Gallery, 1995-2022.

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Lot Essay

A very similar pair of joined geese dated to the Ming dynasty was included in the exhibition Chinese Jade throughout the Ages and illustrated in Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, 1973-75, no. 365.

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