A white jade 'goose' pendant


QianlongThe pebble carved in the round as a stylised goose with the head turned backward gently resting on its body, the plumage meticulously detailed in low relief and incised lines, the attractively polished stone of an even white tone. 5.5cm (2 1/8in) long.
|清乾隆 白玉雕鵝佩Provenance:Fong Chow (1923-2012), former curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New YorkChristie's New York, 19-20 September 2013, lot 1699Marchant, LondonExhibited, Published and Illustrated:Marchant, 90th Anniversary Exhibition: Ninety Jades for 90 Years, London, 2015, no.45來源：周方（1923-2012）舊藏，曾任美國紐約大都會博物館館長紐約佳士得，2013年9月19-20日，拍品編號1699倫敦Marchant展覽、出版及著錄：Marchant，《玉器九十，90週年特展》，倫敦，2015年，編號45See a similar goose, Song/Ming dynasty, from the Guan-fu collection, illustrated by J.C.Y.Watt in Chinese Jades from Han to Ch'ing, New York, 1980, p.97, no.82; and see a further example of a jade goose in similar pose, illustrated in The Youngman Collection: Chinese Jades from Neolithic to Qing, Chicago, 2008, no.90;A similar white jade goose, 18th century, from the Sze Yuan Tang collection was sold at Bonhams Hong Kong, 5 April 2016, lot 59.白玉質，清潤白糯，鵝曲項而眠，身圓肥瘦，鵝翅浮雕淺刻毛羽，雙腳簡化成仿古雲紋，饒有古意，尾巴上翹，分卷成雲。類似以鵝為主題的玉珮，見早期宋/明一例，著錄於屈志仁，《Chinese Jades from Han to Ch'ing》，紐約，1980年，頁97，編號82；另見楊門收藏一例，著錄於《The Youngman Collection: Chinese Jades from Neolithic to Qing》，芝加哥，2008年，編號90。思源堂舊藏一件十八世紀白玉鵝，2016年4月5日售於香港邦瀚斯，拍品編號59。