Description

Moss Christmas Goose Ornament by P. Buckley Moss

Introduction

Moss Christmas Goose Ornament by P. Buckley Moss is a 2013 limited, numbered porcelain ornament that brings one of the artist’s familiar bird subjects into a distinctly Christmas setting. A tall black-necked goose stands at the center of a green holiday wreath dotted with red berries and finished with an oversized red bow.

Measuring 3-5/16 inches in diameter, the ornament is presented against an open white ground with a narrow gold border. Canada Goose Gallery’s approved inventory identifies it as Product ID 1855, currently priced at $42, and classifies it under Christmas, Geese, and Nature.

Story Behind the Artwork

The humor of Moss Christmas Goose Ornament comes from a simple transformation: instead of placing a wreath on a door or window, Moss places the goose directly through its center.

The bird’s long neck rises well above the greenery while its thin legs extend below the large bow. This unusual arrangement makes the goose itself part of the Christmas decoration.

The design also has a particularly natural connection to Canada Goose Gallery. While that gallery relationship should not be confused with a documented statement about Moss’s reason for creating the image, the goose subject gives the ornament obvious relevance for collectors familiar with the gallery’s name and identity.

Symbols & Meaning

The Christmas wreath is widely associated with holiday welcome, continuity, and seasonal tradition, while the red bow and berries immediately establish a traditional Christmas palette.

Geese can suggest family bonds and companionship, and there is a factual natural-history basis for that association: Canada Geese generally maintain long-term pair bonds, and young may remain with their parents throughout their first year.

Those natural behaviors can enrich a collector’s interpretation of the image, but they should not be presented as symbols Moss specifically intended unless an artist statement documents that meaning.

Artistic Details

Moss builds the design around a strong vertical silhouette. The goose’s long black neck rises above the wreath, immediately drawing attention against the nearly white porcelain ground.

The wreath creates the opposite movement: a broad circular mass of green surrounding the bird’s warm brown body. A large crimson-red bow stretches horizontally across the center and then drops below the wreath, creating a visual counterweight to the upright neck.

Small red berries repeat the bow’s color throughout the greenery. The narrow gold outer border finishes the circular design without competing with the central subject.

The abundance of white space is important. Rather than surrounding the goose with a winter landscape, Moss isolates the figure and decoration, making the image readable at the small scale of a porcelain ornament.

Featured Master Collections

Primary Master Collection: Christmas Traditions

This is the strongest assignment because the work is explicitly a Christmas ornament and uses a wreath, red bow, holiday greenery, and traditional red-and-green seasonal colors.

Supporting Master Collection: Birds of Hope

This is a reasonable secondary editorial assignment because the goose is the dominant living subject. However, it should not be presented as a documented artist-symbolism claim. The supporting connection comes from subject matter and collector interest in Moss bird imagery.

Decorating Ideas

Hang Moss Christmas Goose Ornament from its supplied gold cord on a traditional Christmas tree, bird-themed tree, nature-inspired tree, wreath, garland, or seasonal branch display.

Its clean white background and concentrated red-and-green design also make it well suited to display on a small ornament easel, where the unusual goose-and-wreath composition can be seen more easily.

For a collector building a Moss ornament tree, this piece offers an opportunity to group ornaments by birds, animals, Christmas traditions, or nature rather than relying only on Santa and winter scenes.

Gift Ideas

This ornament is particularly well suited for a P. Buckley Moss collector, bird lover, goose enthusiast, nature lover, Christmas ornament collector, or longtime Canada Goose Gallery customer.

It could also serve as a memorable holiday gift for someone who associates Canada Geese with a favorite pond, farm, park, migration season, or family landscape.

About the Edition

Artist: P. Buckley Moss
Year: 2013
Medium: Porcelain ornament
Edition type: Limited, Numbered Edition
Product ID: 1855
Size: 3-5/16 inches diameter
Orientation: Round
Condition: New / Mint
Current CGG price: $42
Presentation: Boxed, pouch, and gold hanging cord per supplied gallery information
Official artist certification: Included per supplied gallery information

Canada Goose Gallery’s approved inventory independently verifies the $42 price, porcelain format, limited numbered classification, and Christmas / Geese / Nature categories.

🎨 Fun Fact:

Not every Canada Goose heads south for the winter. Cornell Lab of Ornithology reports that some populations migrate long distances, while others travel only short distances or remain in the same general region year-round. Even more interesting for the family associations people often make with geese, young Canada Geese can stay with their parents through their entire first year, and migrating flocks are often loose gatherings of family groups. So the familiar V overhead may contain much more family structure than a casual observer realizes.

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🖼️ Collector’s Insight:

What distinguishes Moss Christmas Goose Ornament is the way Moss combines bird imagery and Christmas decoration into a single silhouette rather than placing a goose inside a conventional holiday landscape. The bird literally emerges through the wreath, with its long neck above and slender legs below, while the oversized red bow creates the composition’s visual center. That makes the ornament especially useful for collectors who want their Moss Christmas display to extend beyond Santa, churches, and winter villages into birds and nature, while still remaining unmistakably festive.

Why Buy from Canada Goose Gallery

Canada Goose Gallery’s approved inventory identifies Moss Christmas Goose Ornament as a limited, numbered porcelain ornament in the Christmas, Geese, and Nature categories. This example is supplied as new and mint, boxed with pouch and gold hanging cord, and accompanied by the artist’s official certification, according to the provided gallery record.

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  “A goose dressed for Christmas.”