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‘WANNIAN QING’: A VERY FINE AND RARE ‘CONFUCIUS-
STYLE’ LACQUERED GUQIN
Song/Yuan 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-gold studs (hui), seven strings threaded
through tasseled white jade pegs (qinzhen) running over the top and
tied to either of the two button-like jade pegs (yanzu) on the back, with
two rectangular openings, the large one termed ‘dragon pool’ (longchi)
and the smaller ‘phoenix pond’ (fengzhao), the underside bearing an
inscription, box.
126.5cm (49 3/4in) long x 21cm (8 1/4in) wide (2).

HKD800,000 - 1,200,000
US$100,000 - 150,000
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宋/元 鐵保舊藏 仲尼式「萬年清」琴

Provenance:
Tie Bao (1752-1824) (inscription)
An important Asian private collection

來源：
鐵保（1752-1824）（銘文）
亞洲重要私人收藏

Published and Illustrated:
Xu Jian, Zhongguo guqin minjian diancang (Chinese Qin in Folk
Collections), Beijing, 2013, pp.198-200, no.79.

出版及著錄：
許建編，《中國古琴民間典藏》，北京，2013年，編號79，
頁198-200

30, Infrared photo of the inscriptions,
Zhongguo guqin minjian diancang, p.199
銘文紅外攝影，《中國古琴民間典藏》，
頁199

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