“Jade Pot Ice” Qin

[“Yuhubing” Qin]

“Yuhubing” Qin, Southern Song Dynasty, with a total length of 119.1 cm, a hidden space of 110.3 cm, a forehead width of 17.8 cm, a shoulder width of 19.3 cm, a tail width of 13.3 cm, and a thickness of 4.8 cm. The old collection of the Qing Palace
The “jade pot ice” zither is of the Zhongni style, carved with tung wood, painted with black paint, and the antlers are gray, and the water is broken between the belly of the snake. A rectangular pond, with its belly basically square. Gold badge, white jade foot, sandalwood bar, sandalwood tail
There is an inscription on the back of the piano. The name of the piano is carved on the top of the dragon pool in small seal characters “jade pot ice”, and the regular script “two years of Shaoxing in Song Dynasty, made of gold road” is painted on the left and right sides of the pool. The second year of Shaoxing is 1132. According to the Book of Clouds and Mists Passing through the Eyes of Zhou Mi of the Yuan Dynasty, “The golden road, the so-called golden road, is the beginning of Shaoxing, and the piano is thin and light.” Tao Zongyi of the Yuan Dynasty also recorded in the Book of Dropping out of Farming in South Village



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