Description: A CHINESE CARVED JADE ‘GOOSE’ BOX AND COVER. Qing Dynasty, 19th Century. The bird carved and pierced as a box and cover, to depict a bird standing with the head turned back, a spray of lingzhi fungus in the mouth extending around the body and forming handles on either side suspending hanging rings, the tall feet encircled by further scrolling lingzhi fungus, wood stand, 15.5cm H. With wood stand. (3) Provenance: English Private Collection, acquired in the 1930s. 清十九世紀 玉雕鵝型蓋盒連木座 For a similarly conceived box and cover formed as a pair of birds see J.M. Hartman, Three Dynasties of Jade, 1971, cat no 57 and also American Art Galleries, The Remarkable Collection of the Imperial Prince Kung of China, 1918, cat no 139. Notes: Asian Art