Boy and Girl with Goose Acc no 8527-1863 Victoria and Albert Museum Two naked figures of a boy and a girl are posed frontally standing side by side against a tree stump. A goose is supported on the girl's back. The motif of children playing with a goose is of classical origin. The group relates stylistically to figures produced around 1545 by Niccolò Tribolo and Pierino da Vinci, who were both specialists at modelling children. However, it was made by a reproductive technique, and tests indicated that the sculpture was fired less than 150 years ago, probably not long before it was acquired and sketched by Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898). This type of image has clearly appealed to different western cultures over an extensive perio