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869
A TURQUOISE-GLAZED ‘FLOWERS OF THE FOUR SEASONS’
DISH
Qing dynasty
The flat flange incised with a band of elaborate stylized dragon scroll
encircling the interior incised with peony, lotus, chrysanthemum and
prunus, each flower representing one of the four seasons, the exterior
incised with four butterflies, all supported on a tall foot ring surrounding
the four-character mark reading Chending xuan zhi, the thin glaze
pooling to deep sapphire blue in recessed areas.
11 3/8in (29cm) diam.

$6,000 - 10,000

清 孔雀綠釉刻四季花紋盤

Gerald Davison in The New & Revised Handbook of Marks on Chinese
Ceramics (Somerset: G. Davison, 2010) pp. 123 and 271, translates
the mark as ‘Made for the Pavilion of Abstraction from Mundane
Affairs,’ explaining that this was a ‘studio name for [the] scholar official
Jichang from the Baidu clan.’ He dates the mark to the Qianlong and
Daoguang eras.

870
No lot

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