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A RARE CELADON JADE MALLOW-SHAPED FOOT FOR GUQIN, YANZU
Song Dynasty

17 March 2025, 09:00 EDT
New York

US$5,000 - US$8,000

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A RARE CELADON JADE MALLOW-SHAPED FOOT FOR GUQIN, YANZU

Song Dynasty
The five-petal flower carved in relief on the flat top, the sides straight and following the silhouette of the flower, connecting to the short cylinder neck supported by a slightly tapered square body, the gray celadon stone of even color softly polished.
1 11/16in (4cm) high

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宋 珍罕青玉雁足

Originally a pair, the 'goose feet' are made for raising the guqin from underneath, creating space for the sound transmission and functioning as anchors to wound up one end of the strings.

Compare the very similar jade flower-shaped 'goose feet' on the 'Dragon's Roar' guqin in the Collection of the Freer Gallery of Art, now the National Museum of Asian Art in the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., illustrated by Yang Yuanzheng, Dragon's Roar: Chinese Literati Musical Instruments in the Freer and Sackler Collections, Washington D.C., 2020, p. 73, figs. 3.9 and 3.10. The author also illustrated a Warring States example of circular head and square insert on p. 44, fig. 2.24.

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