"Xiangpu’s Treasure" Guqin (古琴 )

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Musical Instruments

"Xiangpu’s Treasure" Guqin (古琴 )

Chinese

Date
mid 19th century
Medium
wutong wood, lacquer, mother-of-pearl, silk, jade
Dimensions
49 3/16 × 7 5/8 × 3 7/8 in. (124.9 × 19.3 × 9.8 cm)
Object type
Qin
Classification
Chordophone-Zither-plucked-long zither
Culture
Chinese
Country
China
Object number
2016.179.1
Credit line
Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2016
Gallery
681

The Met object ID 670501. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.