Goose
Category
Ceramics
Date
1700
Materials
wood, ceramic
Measurements
320 mm (Length)
Place of origin
Arita
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Clandon Park, Surrey
NT 1440404.1
Summary
[Salvaged] One of a pair of white geese, porcelain, with head raised, hissing, incised feathers, the webbed feet and beaks painted in coral red-coloured enamel with black details, China, Qianlong period, c.1760; mounted on Continental rococo giltwood plinths with gilt-metal candle-branches with seed pods and leafy nozzles. These rare models of Chinese geese were conceived as pairs, for other examples of these models see Howard & Ayers, China for The West, Vol II, p. 587; Rienaeker, "Fanatasies of Chinese Ceramic Art", Country Life Annual, 1956, fig 3 Ex the Ionides Collection; and William Sargent, The Copeland Collection, page 239, fig 119.
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust in 1968 by Mrs Hannah Gubbay