PR summary

Closes #2369. Thanks to #25247, we now only need some very minor plumbing to expose clip_path in contour and contourf.

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.patches as mpatches

x = y = np.arange(-3.0, 3.01, 0.025)
X, Y = np.meshgrid(x, y)
Z1 = np.exp(-X**2 - Y**2)
Z2 = np.exp(-(X - 1)**2 - (Y - 1)**2)
Z = (Z1 - Z2) * 2

fig, ax = plt.subplots()
patch = mpatches.RegularPolygon((0, 0), 5, radius=2, transform=ax.transData)
ax.contourf(X, Y, Z, clip_path=patch)

plt.show()

I'm unsure whether this should have an image test. For now, I just went for the simplest test that fails against main. I didn't add an example because we already have examples for both contours and clipping (the above, which is also the what's new entry, was adapted from this one and this one).

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