Boy with Goose

by Graham Duell

Some years ago we thought some geese would look nice on our dam, so we got a pair. They had babies. The babies had babies. We now have a veritable armada of geese intimidating the native birds, and the head gardener. It was time for a cull!.

First catch your goose! Not easy, and with remarkable wisdom the geese were able to see through every ploy at entrapment on their way to our Christmas dinner.

Thumbing through a book of Helenistic sculpture, I came across an image of one of the classics of that era, a very small boy strangling a goose. Perhaps 3 or 4, the boy is up to the task and getting on with it, in stark contrast to the head gardener.

Perhaps if I reproduced the piece, it would steele my resolve and bring out the latent hunter.

Much reproduced in Roman and later periods, this piece has a striking pose, dynamic intent and has so failed to bring any real geese to heel.

Produced in a white clay and fired to 1140 degrees, with a light clear glaze.

The main lesson learn't while attempting this copy is that those Greeks were pretty good!

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Media	glazed ceramic
Dimensions	45cm wide x 55cm high x 45cm deep.
Weight	15 Kg
Year Created	2012
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