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On perusing The Records of Zaobanchu, indeed in 1743, many ceramics with revolving
components started to appear, including bowls, brushpots, hat stands, spittoons and
double gourd vases. There are many such examples in the Taipei and Beijing Palace
Museums, several of which have corresponding entries in the Records. For example,
there is an entry for ‘a pair of yangcai revolving reticulated hat stands’, which appears to
correspond to the yangcai revolving hat stand (fig. 1) in the Taipei Palace Museum. After
1745, vases with revolving components and yangcai decoration frequently appeared in
the Records, illustrating that the sizes of these vases became larger as the manufacturing
techniques advanced.

The revolving vases that are found in world museums, although quite small in number,
all vary in their forms and decorations. The current vase is approximately 40 cm. high
and off a popular form in the Qianlong period, with long neck, broad shoulders, rounded
pierced body and splayed foot. The interior and the base are glazed in turquoise, with
the six-character mark written in underglaze-blue seal script, in a calligraphic style

翻閱乾隆時期《養心殿造辦處各作成做活計清檔》（以下簡稱《活計檔》）的記載，
乾隆八年開始的確相繼出現可旋轉的器物，包括有碗、筆筒、冠架、渣斗、葫蘆瓶等，
臺北的故宮博物院和北京的故宮博物院中就收藏有不少前述可以旋轉的文物，而許
多現存作品都可在《活計檔》找到相對應的紀錄。如在乾隆九年出現「洋彩夾鏇玲
瓏冠架一對」的這條記事，與傳世臺北故宮所藏的「洋彩玲瓏轉旋冠架」相似（圖一 ，
詳細內容見余佩瑾〈唐英監造轉心瓶及其相關問題〉一文，刊於2013年的《故宮學術
季刊》）。而約乾隆十年之後，有旋轉設計及洋彩裝飾的瓶類即不斷出現於檔案記載
之中，可以推測隨著工藝的嫻熟度，器形從較小尺寸的容器，發展至以較大體型的瓶
式為主要。

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