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AN IMPORTANT AND VERY RARE 'ZHUQUE' BLACK-LACQUERED QIN
AN IMPORTANT AND VERY RARE 'ZHUQUE' BLACK-LACQUERED QIN
AN IMPORTANT AND VERY RARE 'ZHUQUE' BLACK-LACQUERED QIN
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AN IMPORTANT AND VERY RARE 'ZHUQUE' BLACK-LACQUERED QIN

DATED BY INSCRIPTION TO THE 3RD YEAR OF THE ZHIZHENG REIGN OF YUAN DYNASTY, CORRESPONDING TO 1343 AND OF THE PERIOD

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AN IMPORTANT AND VERY RARE 'ZHUQUE' BLACK-LACQUERED QIN
DATED BY INSCRIPTION TO THE 3RD YEAR OF THE ZHIZHENG REIGN OF YUAN DYNASTY, CORRESPONDING TO 1343 AND OF THE PERIOD
Overall length: 46 ¾ in. (119 cm.)
String length: 44 in. (112 cm.)
Width of the head: 7 ¾ in. ( 19.5 cm.)
Width of shoulder: 8 ½ in. ( 21.5 cm.)
Width of the tail: 6 ½ in. ( 16.5 cm.)
Provenance
Ming Dynasty Ninghua Prince, Zhu Biaochao (1503-1570)
Zeng Yu (1760-1831)
Zhang Mengze (1836-1885)
Wu Dacheng (1835-1902)
Wu Hufan (1894-1968) and Pan Jingshu (1892-1939)
Master of the Water, Pine and Stone Retreat, circa 1980s
Literature
Arts from the Scholars’ Studio, Hong Kong, 1986, no. 1

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Lot Essay

The qin is of Ziqi style, lacquered in dark brown colour, the upper surface suffused with ‘ox-hair’ crackle and ‘flowing-water’ crackle and the side with ‘ice-crack’ crackle. The back of the qin with a rounded dragon pond and a rounded rectangular phoenix pool.
Above the longchi (dragon pond) , the name of the qin, Zhuque (Vermillion Bird), is inscribed in clerical script, followed by a 12-character inscription that translates to ‘made in spring of the third year of Zhizheng by Lv Gongjin of Baixia’.

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