Lot 3654. A jade 'geese' carving, Yuan-Ming dynasty; 10.4 cm., 4 1/8  in. Estimate 500,000 — 700,000 HKD. Sold for 875,000 HKD (100,586 EUR). Photo Sotheby's

finely worked as a pair of conjoined geese, the larger one turning its neck around to face the other and grasping a spray of millet in their beaks, the contour of their wings faintly incised, depicted with ripples of water wrapped around their bodies, the smooth stone of a pale celadon colour highlighted with mottled russet inclusions .

Provenance: Kirknorton Collection.

Literature: Brian Morgan and Boqian Li, Naturalism & Archaism: Chinese Jades from the Kirknorton Collection, London, 1991, pl. 24.