Green white jade Zigang style cross branch flower pattern square box

[Blue and white jade Zigang style cross branch flower pattern square box]

The height of the box is 9 cm, the height of the box is 6.2 cm, the caliber is 7.8 cm, and the bottom diameter is 6 cm
Green white jade is warm and moist. The box cover is the mother mouth, and the cover is carved with landscape characters by means of shallow relief and overcast line carving. In the far mountains and near the water, two people sit under a weeping willow and talk to each other. In the far distance, one person is fishing in the bow of the fishing boat. There are also huts and mountain people, which are like landscape paintings. On one side, there is a relief poem: “Peach red with rain, willow green with smoke”. The box body and the four walls of the cover are embossed with okra, lotus, pomegranate and peach flowers in shallow relief, representing the four seasons of the year,. In the box at the bottom of the box, the word “Zigang” is embossed on the ground
Lu Zigang, a famous jade carving master in the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, was born in Taicang, Jiangsu Province, and often lived in Suzhou. However, regarding the name of Lu Zigang, there are two ways of writing “Lu Zigang” and “Lu Zigang” in the documents of the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty. The jade articles with Lu Zigang’s style engraved in the Palace Museum are of different styles even in the Ming Dynasty. Most of them are vessels. There are exquisite and meticulous writers, and there are also rough carvers. It seems that Lu Zigang may have appeared imitations because of his fame at that time. Later, he was regarded as a symbol of a brand and a synonym for high-grade jade. In the Ming Dynasty, there had been counterfeiting and embezzlement. This phenomenon has continued to the Qing Dynasty and even today’s jade carving industry