RARE CHINESE HAN DYNASTY POTTERY GOOSE WITH BRONZE LEGS
Ca. 202 BC-220 AD. Han dynasty. A beautiful and rare Chinese Han dynasty pottery goose with bronze legs. The goose is standing on its detailed bronze legs which support a large globular body and elegantly slender neck terminating in a red coloured head with a black beak and open, attentive eyes. The body is decorated with brownish and green glaze, imitating the animal's plumage. Geese were a major motif in Han dynasty era poetry and were typically distinguished between two types of geese, the domestic goose, and the wild goose. The Han Dynasty, which ruled between 202 BC-220 AD, brought great prosperity and stability to China, reigning over a golden age of classical Chinese civilisation during which China saw major advances including the widespread development of a monetary economy and the invention of paper, as well as much progress in the decorative arts. To find out more about the Han Dynasty and its art production, see Milleker, Elizabeth J. (ed.) (2000). The Year One: Art of the Ancient World East and West. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Size: L:205mm / W:190mm ; 760g. Provenance: UK private collection of Asian Art; formerly acquired in the early 1990s in Hong Kong.
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Ca. 202 BC-220 AD. Han dynasty. A beautiful and rare Chinese Han dynasty pottery goose with bronze legs. The goose is standing on its detailed bronze legs which support a large globular body and elegantly slender neck terminating in a red coloured head with a black beak and open, attentive eyes. The body is decorated with brownish and green glaze, imitating the animal's plumage. Geese were a major motif in Han dynasty era poetry and were typically distinguished between two types of geese, the domestic goose, and the wild goose. The Han Dynasty, which ruled between 202 BC-220 AD, brought great prosperity and stability to China, reigning over a golden age of classical Chinese civilisation during which China saw major advances including the widespread development of a monetary economy and the invention of paper, as well as much progress in the decorative arts. To find out more about the Han Dynasty and its art production, see Milleker, Elizabeth J. (ed.) (2000). The Year One: Art of the Ancient World East and West. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Size: L:205mm / W:190mm ; 760g. Provenance: UK private collection of Asian Art; formerly acquired in the early 1990s in Hong Kong.
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