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PROPERTY FROM THE QUEK KIOK LEE COLLECTION
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A SET OF FOUR FAMILLE ROSE ‘FLOWERS OF
THE FOUR SEASONS’ PLAQUES
SIGNED CHENG YITING (1895-1948), REPUBLIC PERIOD
Each plaque is finely and delicately enamelled to depict one of the
‘Flowers of the Four Seasons’, each accompanied by a different
species of bird. The ‘spring’ panel depicts a peacock below a
large flowering peony branch; the ‘summer’ panel depicts a pair
of mandarin ducks amongst lotus flowers; the ‘autumn’ panel
is decorated with a hawk and two smaller birds in flight above
chrysanthemum and asters; and the ‘winter’ panel is decorated with
two magpies perched on a prunus branch. Two panels bear iron
red seals reading ‘Pei gu zhai’ (Studio of Respect for the Ancient)
and the other two reading ‘Cheng yin’ (Seal of Cheng).
30 æ x 8 in. (78 x 20.5 cm.) (4)

HK$500,000-600,000 US$65,000-77,000
For an overview of the artists’ plaques depicting birds amongst
lotus and chrysanthemum, see those from the Muwentang
Collection published in Simon Kwan, Chinese Porcelain of the
Republic Period, Hong Kong, 2008, nos. 44, 45, 47, 49, and 50.

民國
程意亭（1895-1948 年）款粉彩四季花鳥圖瓷板一套四件
印文：程印、佩古齋

來源
郭克禮珍藏

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