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Southern Song - early Ming Dynasty
The flat elongated body with two waisted sections on both sides, lacquered black, the surface slightly ice-cracked and worn due to age, the top with thirteen inlaid studs (hui), seven strings threaded through tasseled pegs (qinzhen) running over the top and tied to either of the two button-like pegs (yanzu) on the back, with two rectangular openings, the large one termed 'dragon pool' (longchi) and the smaller 'phoenix pond' (fengzhao), fitted box.
123cm (48 3/8in) long x 19cm (7 1/2in) wide. (2).
Footnotes
南宋至明初 仲尼式膝琴
Provenance:
Acquired in San Francisco in 1970s, and thence by descent within the family
來源:
1970年代購於三藩市,此後家族傳承
The present guqin is in the Zhongni form – also known as the 'Confucius style' – as this was the shape supposedly used and favoured by the Sage. Its slightly domed and flattened body has strong characters of made during the Song dynasty called (flattened Song dynasty style) by connoisseurs. Compare with a Confucius-style 'Yuhubing' , Southern Song dynasty, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, which is illustrated by Minzhong Zheng in the , Beijing, 2010, pl.7. Compare also with a related Confucius-style , Southern Song dynasty, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in , pl.10.
The instrument is relatively large, resembling qins of the Tang dynasty. See for example, the qin, , Tang dynasty, 125cm long, 21.8cm wide, illustrated in , Beijing, 2011, pp.24-29, no.1. See also the Song dynasty , in the Palace Museum, Beijing, of comparable size to the present lot (128.6cm long x 20.4cm wide); and also the Southern Song dynasty , , 126cm long x 20cm wide, illustrated in , pp.74-77, 88-89, pls.10 and 13.
Compare a similar black-lacquered Confucious-style , Southern Song/early Ming dynasty, from the collection of Yanqin Zhai, Hong Kong, which was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 19 May 2026, lot 5531.
琴仲尼式,面板極厚重,身形扁平,棱角嶄然。其起肩收腰勢有南宋風韻,可資比較者北京故宮有兩床,最似者為一床宋代無名仲尼式琴,亦是厚而平,棱角嶄然,見鄭珉中編,《故宮古琴圖典》,北京,2010年,編號10;另可比較南宋玉壺冰琴,漆面斷紋及面板木料之朽態與本琴頗似,見前書,編號7,此二琴與本琴護軫皆成彎轉馬蹄狀,極為精緻,後世罕有可比者。
此琴體量頗大,儼然唐琴氣度,尺寸接近北京故宮博物院藏唐「九霄環珮」琴,通長125釐米,肩寬21.8釐米,見故宮博物院編,《故宮古琴圖典》,北京,2011年,編號1,頁24-29。北京故宮所藏有明確斷代的宋琴,體量能和「萬年清」相當者,唯有北宋「萬壑松」琴,通長128.6釐米,肩寬20.4釐米,南宋「奔雷」琴,通長126.6釐米,肩寬20釐米,見前書,編號10及13,頁74-77及88-89。
可見香港「研琴齋」舊藏一例南宋至明初黑漆仲尼式古琴,售於香港蘇富比2026年5月19日,拍品編號 5531。