清道光 / 咸豐 王炳榮作白釉雕瓷雙駿圖方蓋盒 《王炳榮作》款

of square section with rounded and indented corners, the cover relief-carved with two finely rendered horses grazing in a rocky countryside detailed with boulders and bare trees, the sides crisply carved with wan-diapered panels, the countersunk base with a four-character seal mark Wang Bingrong zuo in positive script, fitted wood stand

Wang Bingrong, along with Chen Guozhi and Li Yucheng, were ceramic artists at Jingdezhen during the early nineteenth century, who individually crafted and signed carved porcelains. During the first half of the nineteenth century the distinction between artists and craftsmen began to dissolve, encouraging fine artists like Wang to assume artistic pretensions of identification.

Other related works by Wang Bingrong include a carved lime-green glazed 'Landscape' Brushpot sold in these rooms, 8th April 2013, lot 3081, and a plaque carved with a prunus tree sold in our Paris rooms, 18th December 2009, lot 73, from the collection of Edward. T. Chow. See also a yellow-glazed box and cover similarly carved with grazing horses, sold at Bonhams San Francisco, 20th June 2012, lot 8322 and a yellow-glazed brushpot sold at Bonhams London, 7th November 2013, lot 24.