Jade goose, Song dynasty, 960-1279 C.E.-China Archive

Image Number: K1C008811N000000000PAB
Dynasty: Song dynasty
Category: Jades
Function: Clothing and accessories
Material: Minerals/Jade Jewelry/Shining Jade
Description:
The seeds are slightly triangular bluish white, and near black dark brown at the tip of the triangle. Centered on this point, the brown radiates from dark to light, and the color is quite natural when viewed with the naked eye. Carved into a goose looking back and sleeping close to its neck. A small hole is formed at the curve neck for tying ropes. However, a group of tunnel holes were drilled above and below a pair of goose palms on the abdomen. It can be seen that this jade goose can also be sewn on the upper end of its object. It can be seen from archaeological data that Qidan and Jurchen nationalities in the north of the Song Dynasty loved to wear jade pendants carved with the natural shape of seeds, or curved necks, or goose shaped jade pendants. However, jade chicken, duck, goose and other small pendants were also unearthed in the tombs of Jianzhong Village in Nanjing in the early Southern Song Dynasty. The geese and geese are very similar in biological classification. In appearance, the geese are large, with a long neck and a high and convex forehead. If compared with the jade sleeping wild geese of Liao Dynasty from the North Pagoda of Chaoyang,