A fine Confucius-style 'pianqiu' lacquered qin

Southern Song Dynasty

Footnotes

南宋 仲尼式「片秋」琴

Provenance:
The Yanqinzhai Collection, Hong Kong

來源:
香港硯琴齋珍藏

Exhibited:
The University Museum and Art Gallery, Gems of Ancient Chinese Zithers: Shum's Collection of Ancient Qin from the Last Millennium, University of Hong Kong, 14th October-5th December 1998
The Chang Foundation Museum, The Ancient Chinese Zither(Qin), Taipei, 2000

展覽：
香港大學美術博物館，「古琴薈珍—硯琴齋宋元明清古琴展」，香港，1998年10月14日-12月5日
鴻禧美術館，「2000年台北古琴藝術節唐宋元明百琴展」，台北，2000年

Published and Illustrated:
B. Yung, Gems of Ancient Chinese Zithers: Shum's Collection of Ancient Qin from the Last Millennium, Hong Kong, 1998, p.15, pl.18
Taipei Municipal Chinese Classical Orchestra and The Chang Foundation ed., The Ancient Chinese Zither(Qin), pp.80-81

出版及著錄：
榮鴻曾編，《古琴薈珍—硯琴齋宋元明清古琴展》，香港，1998年，頁15，圖版18
台北市立國樂團及鴻禧美術館編，《古琴紀事圖錄》，台北，2000年，頁80-81

Its slightly domed and flattened body has strong characters of qins in Song Dynasty called Songbian (flattened Song Dynasty style) by connoisseurs. Compare with a Confucius-style 'Yuhubing' qin, Southern Song Dynasty, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, which is illustrated by M.Z. Zheng in the Guqin in the Collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, 2010, pl. 7; compare also with a closely related Confucius-style qin, Southern Song Dynasty, in the Palace Museum, see ibid, pl.10.

仲尼式，黑髹，上下遍發小蛇腹斷，肩起二徽半，腰收八徽，紫檀岳山、冠角及龍齦，青玉軫足，蚌徽，桐木面板，內有天地柱，龍池上方填朱漆「片秋」二字，龍池鳳藻間陰刻「嘉靖四十三年八月造姑洗律」，鳳藻下方陰刻「鄭府之寶」印，琴音堅實有金石聲。

此琴面板極厚重，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。