A small lobed doucai 'Three Friends of Winter' bottle vase, Mark and period of Yongzheng | 清雍正 鬥彩歲寒三友花卉螭龍紋瓜棱式小瓶 《大清雍正年製》款

Japanese Private collects ion (by repute).

Hong Kong Private collects ion. 

日本私人收藏 (傳)

香港私人收藏

Vases of this design are held in a number of museum collects ions worldwide. See one in the collects ion of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (accession no. M.71.65.8), and two in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. (accession nos F1945.40a-b and F1945.39a-c). Another was exhibited in Catalog of the Special Exhibition of K’ang-hsi, Yung-cheng and Ch’ien-lung Porcelain Ware of the Ch’ing Dynasty in the National Palace Museum, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1986, cat. no. 46. A fifth was included in the exhibition Qing Imperial Porcelain of the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Reigns, Nanjing Museum and the Art Gallery of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Nanjing and Hong Kong, 1995, cat. no. 61. 

Small delicate vessels of this form may have been placed on scholar's desks to contain flowers. The famous portrait of the Qianlong Emperor seated in his studio in ancient Han dress shows a vase of this shape with two branches of peony, as illustrated in The Complete collects ion of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Paintings by Court Artists of the Qing Court, vol. 14, Hong Kong, 1996, pl. 45.