ID 807568
Lot 718 | A PALE CELADON AND BLACKISH-BROWN JADE CARVING OF TWO RECUMBENT GEESE
Estimate value
$ 8 000 – 12 000
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.
| Medium: | Jade, Precious stones |
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| Historical era: | Ming dynasty |
| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Asia |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Medium: | Jade, Precious stones |
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| Historical era: | Ming dynasty |
| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Asia |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
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