A WHITE JADE RECTANGULAR PLAQUE QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

carved in low relief on one side with a scholar and child conversing beneath a rocky outcrop and pine tree and on the reverse with a lengthy inscription signed, Zigang, both sides surmounted with confronted chilong and pierced for suspension
 

The plaque is in very good condition.
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Compare similarly carved plaques, such as one sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 28^th October 1992, lot 572; another sold at Christie's London, 4^th November 1008, lot 84; and another signed Zigang, but of oval form, sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 27^th October 1993, lot 423.

Lu Zigang was a celebrated carver in his native city of Suzhou during the second half of the sixteenth century to the extent that many of the finest jade carvings from the Suzhou workshops bore his 'signature'.