A set of four rubbing of a guqin, Qing dynasty, 19th century | 清十九世紀 「晉孫登公和鐵琴」拓本 立軸四件

Collection of Yanqin Zhai, Hong Kong.

來源：

硯琴齋收藏，香港

Echoes of Antiquity : the Guqin, Macau Museum, 6th March - 29th May (not illustrated).

展覽：

《海天秋月 — 中國古琴文化展》，澳門博物館，2004年3月6至5月29日（無圖）

The present lot comprises a set of full-form rubbings (quanxing tuo) capturing all facets of the 'Tianlai' iron guqin and its fitted case, the instrument currently in the Palace Museum, Beijing, which illustrated in Zheng Minzhong, ed., Gugong guqin tudian [Illustrated Compendium of Guqin in the Palace Museum], Beijing, 2010, pp. 184-185.

Compare a related rubbing of this instrument sold at Bonhams Hong Kong, 19 October 2021, lot 47. That example bears an informative inscription stating: 'The Tianlai iron guqin was acquired in the late Ming dynasty by Xiang Zijing, who named his pavilion after it. In the Qing dynasty, it passed to the Tang family of Hanshang, and subsequently to the Wu family of Qiantang. During the Guangxu reign, Wu Ruolang produced rubbings of it to present as gifts.

本套拓本為北京故宮藏之「天籟」鐵琴各面及琴匣之全形拓，琴見鄭珉中編，《故宮古琴圖典》，北京，2010年，頁184及185。香港邦瀚斯曾售出一件此琴之拓本，其上題識「天籟鐵琴，明季項子京得之以名閣。至清代歸邗上唐氏，嗣又歸錢塘吳氏。光緒間吳若烺曾拓以贈人」云云，可資參考，2021年10月19日，編號47。