A very rare and fine yellow glass dish, Mark and period of Yongzheng | 清雍正 雞油黃料盤 《雍正年製》款

Collection of Baron of Sherborne, Kingsley Manor House, Hampshire, UK.

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舍伯恩男爵收藏，金斯利莊園，英國漢普郡

No yellow glass dishes from the Yongzheng period appear to be recorded in the collections of either the Palace Museum, Beijin or Taipei. A comprehensive review of the archives of the Imperial Household Department (Neiwufu) for the Yongzheng reign reveals only a single entry, dated to the 25th day of the eighth month of the third year of Yongzheng:

"Laxi, Minister of the Imperial Presence and Lieutenant-General under Prince Guo, presented... two yellow glass dishes... By imperial decree, they are to be fitted into wooden boxes and bestowed upon the lamas."

This indicates that such vessels were produced in strictly limited quantities, primarily intended as imperial gifts; see Qinggong Neiwufu Zaobanchu dang'an zonghui [Comprehensive collection of archives from the Imperial Household Department workshops of the Qing court], Beijing, 2005, p. 429.

For the only known comparable example, see a closely related Qianlong period dish in the Palace Museum, Beijing, which retains the stylistic legacy of the Yongzheng period in both form and colour, illustrated in Zhang Rong, ed., Lustre of Autumn Water: Glass of the Qing Imperial Workshop, Beijing, 2005, pl. 38.

雍正一朝的黃釉玻璃盤兩岸故宮皆無，遍索雍正一朝清宮內務府檔案，惟見雍正三年農曆8月25日一條：

「果親王内大臣兼都統拉錫交……黃玻璃盤二個……傳㫖着配木箱盛裝賞喇嘛欽此。」

可見當時製作本來稀少，且多做賞賜而已，見《清宮內務府造辦處檔案總滙》，北京，2005年，頁429。 存世可參考例子惟北京故宮藏一乾隆例，形制與料色仍有雍正遺風，見張榮編，《光凝秋水：清宮造辦處玻璃器》，北京，2005年編號38。