English: Phoenix-headed konghou (a type of harp), Tang dynasty (618-907). Base is an egg-shaped-prism soundbox, neck arches over it and then recurves, the end carved in a bird head. Painted all over with a pattern of brown-edged pale green feathers between squares outlined in yellow rubification-like dots; the diagonal axis of the squares paralle to the edges ofthe structural members, to give a diamond patter. Strung with red, green,a dn white strigns in varying shades. In a museum case.