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Yu Bosun and the present owner, 1981
俞伯蓀與現藏家，1981年

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‘TAIGU YUANYIN’: AN IMPORTANT AND RARE ‘CONFUCIUS- Provenance:
STYLE’ HUANGHUALI AND ZITAN-INLAID ‘HUNDRED-PATCH’ Yu Bosun (1922-2013) collection
GUQIN A Californian private collection, USA, acquired by the mother of the
Ming Dynasty present owner from the above in 1981, and thence by descent
Superbly constructed with various precious woods of warm and dark
hues such as zitan, huanghuali, and hongmu cut hexagonally imitating Published and Illustrated:
Buddhist patchwork vestments, the flat elongated body with two Li Boqin, Zhongguo guqin zhenshang, Beijing, 1995, p.32, pl.11
waisted sections on both sides, the top with thirteen inlaid mother-of- Liu Qin, 115 Years of Memorial Birth Celebration for Mr. Chu Tunan,
pearl studs (hui), seven strings threaded through tasseled jade pegs Beijing, 2014, p.131
(qinzhen) running over the top and tied to either of the two button-like Liu Qirong, ‘On the Dating of Qin Zithers of a Hundred Patches (baina
‘goose-feet’ (yanzu) on the back, with two rectangular openings, the qin) with Hardwood Marquetry’ in Journal of Gugong Studies, 2015,
large one termed ‘dragon pool’ (longchi) and the smaller ‘phoenix May, pp.80-85.
pond’ (fengzhao), the underside bearing an inscription ‘Tai gu yuan yin’
or ‘Harmony of Remote Antiquity’, and the seal ‘Chuan shi zhi bao’, 來源：
‘Treasure passed down the generations’, box. 俞伯蓀（1922－2013）舊藏
117cm (46in) long, 18cm (7in) wide (2). 美國加州私人收藏，現藏家之母1981年購於上者，後由家人保存迄今

HKD1,500,000 - 2,000,000 出版及著錄：
US$190,000 - 260,000 李伯琴著，《中國古琴珍賞》，北京，1995年，圖版11，頁32
柳琴著，《紀念楚圖南誕辰115週年》，北京，2014年，頁131
明 嵌黄花梨紫檀「太古元音」仲尼式百衲琴 劉岐榮著，《試論鑲嵌硬木「百衲琴」製作年代》，載於《故宮學
刊》，北京，2015年5月，頁80-85。

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