Song-Ming dynasty (c.1100-1600)
The two geese are depicted looking at each other with the heads turned back. The birds are sharing a branch held in their beaks. The stone has a greyish-celadon tone with large areas of dark inclusions and veining.
6 cm wide, wood stand
Provenance: Formerly in a Swiss private collection
A jade carving of two geese holding a lotus branch is illustrated in M. Knight, He Li and T.T. Bartholomew in Later Chinese Jades , Ming Dynasty to 20th century, from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, 2007, pl. 288, where it is mentioned that Chinese poets loved to compare lovers to ‘two trees sharing the same branch, two birds sharing the same wing’. Hence, a pair of geese symbolizes fidelity and happy life.
WFE 19 宋–明 玉雕雙鵝
時代：宋朝至明朝，約1100至1600年。
特徵：此玉雕呈雙鵝口銜樹枝、回頭互望之姿。玉石呈青灰色調，帶有大面積的深色紋理。
尺寸：寬6公分；附木座。
來源：原為瑞士私人收藏。
