DAOGUANG PERIOD (1821-1850)

Chen Guozhi was one of the finest of a small group of independent ceramicists, that included Wang Binrong and Li Youcheng, working in Jingdezhen in the early-mid 19th century who signed their important pieces. Compare to a turquoise-glazed relief-decorated porcelain brush pot bearing the mark, Da Qing Daoguang Chen Guozhi zuo, illustrated by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, vol. 2, Geneva, 1999, pp. 246-7, no. 340; and a yellow-enamelled brush pot with a scene of landscape and figures bearing Daoguang mark in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Monochrome Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 55, no. 49, which has the finely worked details on the rim to imitate bamboo like the present lot.