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Lot Essay
Chen Guozhi was one of the finest of a small group of independent ceramicists, that included Wang Bingrong and Li Youcheng, working in Jingdezhen in the early-mid 19th century who signed their important pieces.
A biscuit porcelain inkstone with the mark, Daqing Chen Guozhi zhi in seal characters in relief, also from the Robert H. Blumenfield Collection, was sold in these rooms, 25 March 2010, lot 915. A very similar inkstone that has the relief decoration covered in polychrome glazes and has a four-character mark, Chen Guozhi zuo, is illustrated in Enlightening Pursuits: Scholar's Objects from the Mengdiexuan Collection, University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, 2006, no. 31.
See, also, the turquoise-glazed relief-decorated biscuit porcelain brush pot bearing the mark, Daqing Daoguang Chen Guozhi zao, illustrated by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, vol. 2, Geneva, 1999, pp. 236-7, no. 340.
A biscuit porcelain inkstone with the mark, Daqing Chen Guozhi zhi in seal characters in relief, also from the Robert H. Blumenfield Collection, was sold in these rooms, 25 March 2010, lot 915. A very similar inkstone that has the relief decoration covered in polychrome glazes and has a four-character mark, Chen Guozhi zuo, is illustrated in Enlightening Pursuits: Scholar's Objects from the Mengdiexuan Collection, University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, 2006, no. 31.
See, also, the turquoise-glazed relief-decorated biscuit porcelain brush pot bearing the mark, Daqing Daoguang Chen Guozhi zao, illustrated by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, vol. 2, Geneva, 1999, pp. 236-7, no. 340.