FIRST HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY, SIGNED CHEN GUOZHI

Chen Guozhi was one of the finest of a small group of independent ceramicists, that included Wang Binrong, who worked in Jingdezhen in the first half of the 19th century and signed their important pieces. In Elegance in Relief- Carved Porcelain from Jingdezhen of the 19th to Early 20th Centuries, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006, Tony Miller and Humphrey Hui describe him as "arguably the most versatile of the porcelain carvers of the Daoguang period". A brush pot with a related landscape scene is illustrated on p130, no. 22.