GOOSE DESCENDING TO SANDBAR

ANONYMOUS, MING DYNASTY, 15TH-16TH CENTURY, SCHOOL OF LU JI (C. 1420 - C. 1505)

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GOOSE DESCENDING TO SANDBAR
Anonymous, Ming dynasty, 15th-16th century, school of Lu Ji (c. 1420 - c. 1505)
Ink and light color on silk
With wings outspread a goose descends in flight, honking greeting to his mate who answers, and two other geese, a scene of warmth and recognition on a distant, windy sandbank defined by a few grassy reeds and a lone peony in blossom
69 x 42in. (175.3 x 106.7 cm.); Japanese brocade mounting, framed

拍品专文

The theme of 'Goose Desending to Sandbar' derives from the great Song cycle of paintings and poems, 'Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers', a source of inspiration for centuries of artists, and known in the earliest painted version by Song Di (ca. 1015-ca. 1080). This theme was equally beloved in Japan, where this painting was probably exported soon after it was created.
The strong realism of the scene, and the concentrated gaze between the goose in flight and his mate on the bank, is characteristic of the Ming academy. Compare a very similar composition by Lu Ji in ink on silk, 'Lu ding lai yan' (Wild Geese Returning to Reedy Sandbank), illustrated in Gugong shuhua tulu (Palace Museum Catalogue of Calligraphy and Paintings), vol. 7, p. 179. For further information on Lu Ji and his followers, please see the note for lot 67.