宋 「素心」琴 「山高水長」「古之遺風」印

of Confucius (Zhongni) type, the gently tapering body modelled with a gently convex upper surface with subtly sunken edges along the neck and waist, the underside with two peg guards on one end, supporting the musical instrument with seven tuning pegs and two circular goose feet, all made of ox horn, the front inlaid vertically with thirteen studs (hui), the reverse with a rectangular phoenix pond and dragon pool, interrupted by an incised seal inscription reading Su Xin ('Pure Heart') and the pair of goose feet, each stringing three or four of the seven chords, all above a couplet excerpted from Li Qi's poem flanking the dragon pool, further decorated with two seal marks below the dragon pool, a circular one reading Shangao shuichang ('[nobility and character] as high as the mountains and as long as the rivers') and a square one reading Guzhi yifeng ('remnant patterns from ancient times'), the evenly lacquered surface with a dense network of fine crackles

素心琴 宋琴
張慶崇

全長125.8 公分
有效弦長115.3公分
肩寛20.3公分
尾寛13.9公分

仲尼式，蚌徽、雁足及琴軫均為牛角製品，原黑漆，琴面斑駁交錯之栗殼漆色，為歷經修補痕迹，琴底現冰裂斷紋，琴面出流水斷紋為主。琴名銘文印章等均倒刻於琴底。

雁足龍池間，刻約二寸許篆書「素心」，為琴名。

龍池左右刻銘：
指揮如意天花落，坐臥閒房春草深。

此兩句取自唐朝李頎之〈題璿公山池〉詩句。¹

龍池上刻有一圓一方章。
圓章：山高水長
方章：古之遺風

此琴尺寸稍長，肩當二徽五，而顯聳狹，琴面稍扁，古人所謂唐圓宋扁也。此琴曾於九十年代一琴會上，予鄭珉中先生鑑定為宋代斲制。<sup>2

1</sup> 李頎（690-751年），唐代詩人。開元十三年（725年）進士，多詠邊塞之事，文風豪放，悲壯激昂，尤精七言歌行。〈題璿公山池〉全詩：「遠公遁跡廬山岑，開士幽居祇樹林。片石孤峯窺色相，清池皓月照禪心。指揮如意天花落，坐臥閒房春草深。此外俗塵都不染，惟餘玄度得相尋。」
² 鄭珉中，生於1923年，北京故宮博物院文物鑑定員，身兼國家文物鑑定委員會會員。專注古琴、古硯研究，著作包括《故宮古琴》及《蠡測偶錄集》。