A CARVED BISCUIT 'LANDSCAPE' CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER
A CARVED BISCUIT 'LANDSCAPE' CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER

FIRST HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY, SIGNED CHEN GUOZHI

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A CARVED BISCUIT 'LANDSCAPE' CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER
FIRST HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY, SIGNED CHEN GUOZHI
The cover is carved with small figures, pavilions and a bridge in a mountainous river landscape filled with pine and willow. The sides of the cover are moulded with cartouches enclosing the 'Three Friends of Winter'. The sides of the box have cartouches enclosing pomegranate, finger citrus and peach, reserved on a diaper pattern ground.
5¾ in. (14.6 cm.) diam.
Provenance
From a Private European Collection, acquired in the 1960s-1990s in England and France.
Acquired in France in 1988.

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Lot Essay

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.

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