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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. Fußnoten 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.