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               A SMALL LOBED DOUCAI ‘THREE FRIENDS OF    Small delicate vessels of this form may have been placed
               WINTER’ BOTTLE VASE                       on scholar’s desks to contain flowers. The famous portrait
               MARK AND PERIOD OF YONGZHENG              of the Qianlong Emperor seated in his studio in ancient Han
                                                         dress shows a vase of this shape with two branches of peony,
               the base with a six-character mark in underglaze blue within   as illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the
               a double circle, Japanese wood box (3)    Palace Museum: Paintings by Court Artists of the Qing Court,
               Height 4⅛ in., 10.5 cm                    vol. 14, Hong Kong, 1996, pl. 45.

               PROVENANCE                                ⊖  $ 30,000-50,000
               Japanese Private Collection (by repute).
               Hong Kong Private Collection.
                                                         清雍正   鬥彩歲寒三友花卉螭龍紋瓜棱
               Vases of this design are held in a number of museum
               collections worldwide. See one in the collection of the Los   式小瓶
               Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (accession no.   《大清雍正年製》款
               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-  來源
               hsi, Yung-cheng and Ch’ien-lung Porcelain Ware of the Ch’ing   日本私人收藏 (傳)
               Dynasty in the National Palace Museum, National Palace   香港私人收藏
               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.
















































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