My system is not decent

Chapter 1514 A Hundred Years Old Extension
For bronze Buddha statues, first of all, it depends on the condition of the bottom and paste, and also depends on the degree of gilding.

Nowadays, people often scrape off the gold from gilded Buddha statues, and then make them old and use them as second-rate ones.

In addition, observing from the inside of the Buddha statue, there is a big difference between the new imitation and the old one.

Because the interior of Buddha statues that have gone through hundreds or thousands of years has been naturally weathered, most of them are very clean, and the patina is also natural. The interior of the newly imitated ones is often dirty with mud and sand.

During the Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong dynasties of the Qing Dynasty, due to the strength of the country and the emperor's admiration for Buddhism, not only a large number of statues were made, but the workmanship was also very good.

Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Tibetan-style statues have become the mainstream of court statues, and their influence and spread are also very wide, and there are fewer damages in modern times.

Taking the Palace Museum as an example, there are tens of thousands of gold-plated Buddha statues in the Qianlong Dynasty of Qing Dynasty alone.

The Lama Temple also has thousands of Tibetan Buddha statues in the palace of the Qing Dynasty, and there are countless small gold and bronze Buddha statues scattered among the people.

In the current auction market, the common ones are generally Tibetan official gold and bronze Buddha statues from the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

The exquisite Buddha statues make many people willing to spend a lot of money to buy them.

The reason is that many people who collect Buddha statues first have the need for belief, and then the purpose of investment preservation.

Of course, enshrining a top-grade Buddha statue at home will show your identity even more.

Due to the exquisite craftsmanship of Ming and Qing Buddha statues and the small number of existing ones, Ming and Qing Buddha statues have always occupied a dominant position in the Buddha statue collection market for a long time.

Whether it is in terms of price or the degree of popularity, it is incomparable to other Buddha statues and artworks in other periods.

Even for Chen Wenzhe now, what can be seen or possibly collected are basically small bronze Buddha statues.

Judging the value of a Buddha statue is not fully reflected in the material.

Just like Chen Xingchen's fake ones made of good materials, the materials are good, but the workmanship is too poor.

Therefore, to identify court Buddha statues in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, we should also look at their status and artistic value in the history of Buddhist statues.

Secondly, it depends on its craftsmanship and inscriptions. The material is only a reference factor.

Generally speaking, the value of giant and large Buddha statues is higher than that of medium and small statues;

The Buddha statues cast by the palace are higher than the folk ones;

In Tibetan Buddhist statues, the angry phase is higher than the auspicious phase;
The Bodhisattva costume is higher than the Buddha costume.

For gilt bronze Buddha statues, regardless of whether they have inscriptions to prove their imperial status, as long as they are large in size and exquisite in shape, their prices can be said to rise every year, and there is a lot of room for appreciation.

It's just that the Buddha statue in front of him is getting worse and worse, and Chen Wenzhe has lost interest.

Besides, so what if they were all genuine?It is only used to enrich the museum.

He is not interested in Buddhism, or Buddha statues.

"Let's take a look at the rubbings of the Six Steeds of Zhaoling Mausoleum!" Chen Wenzhe said casually.

Seeing that Chen Wenzhe really didn't have much interest, Chen Xingchen led him to the manufacturing workshop.

When you come outside the workshop, there are two rows of glass exhibition halls at the door, which display all kinds of fine porcelain produced in the factory.

No matter how exquisite the porcelain is, it is not as good as Chen Wenzhe's craftsmanship.

Therefore, Chen Wenzhe looked directly at the six rubbings hanging on the wall.

With just one glance, Chen Wenzhe could tell that this was Jiu Tuo.

This set of six steeds of Zhaoling Mausoleum consists of six pieces, which are very complete.

"Why do we look familiar?"

Walking into the exhibition hall, Chen Wenzhe discovered the problem just by taking a look.

In the antique shop, no matter what, as long as it looks familiar, it is not a good thing.

If something is not mass-produced, as long as it looks familiar, it means that this thing has been seen elsewhere.

Since there are other places, and some famous ones let you see them, then needless to say, there must be something wrong with the things in front of you.

"Isn't it normal to look familiar? We just saw the high imitation stone carvings of the six steeds of Zhaoling!" Li Jinli was stunned and said.

Chen Xingchen laughed, "Manager Li didn't do enough homework, and the Ugly Goddess Art Museum once donated one to China!"

Li Jinli immediately understood that there is also a set of century-old rubbings of the six steeds of the Zhaoling Mausoleum donated by the Ugly Goddess Art Museum in China.

It is also a national treasure that has been lost overseas for many years, and has been collected by the Ugly Goddess Art Museum in Philadelphia for more than 20 years.

However, they have only one rubbing, which is a hundred-year-old rubbing of fist hair, one of the six steeds of Zhaoling in Tang Dynasty.

This precious century-old boxing hair rubbing is attributed to Zhao Qiong, the curator of this museum, who "knows the treasure with eyesight".

It was 2002, and it was at a small auction in Philadelphia.

Zhao Qiong, a sculptor and doctor of literature and art history, recognized its identity at a glance.

With the introduction of the auction next to it, she was immediately moved.

At that time, she also felt very familiar. After all, there are not many such stone rubbings of the Tang Dynasty!
At that time, she thought to herself that no matter how much money she had, she would definitely get it.

Unexpectedly, although there were many local people in the auction at that time, there were very few Asian faces, and the transaction price was within her budget.

She is like a treasure, and since then this treasure has become one of the collections of the Goddess Art Museum.

Since then, more than a dozen Chinese collectors, artists, entrepreneurs, etc. have proposed to Zhao Qiong to buy this rubbing at a high price, but she declined all of them.

In the end, she chose to donate it to the country. She did not do it before, but because the rubbings are very large in size and are directly pasted on the wooden board, it is difficult to peel off.

Even if it is very difficult to transport by plane, this rubbing has been treasured for a long time.

People who don't know it may think that Zhao Qiong is for sale, but she has a sincere heart, and her ambition is not "money" at all!
Now, it's finally back home.

Best of all, this is the complete picture.

Through this pair of rubbings, we can see the complete image of the Shima Fist Hairy when it was not cut and smuggled overseas a hundred years ago.

This is a three-dimensional painting rubbing made by the thieves before cutting the fist hair stone carving, which is completely different from the current rubbing procedure.

Back then, the thieves had premeditated and made this rubbing in order to cut the stolen goods, and use the rubbing image as the standard when restoring it in the future.

Maybe it was because of caution, so when the rubbing was made, it was not just a rubbing.

Obviously, this time Li Jinli was lucky enough to buy a complete set of rubbing pictures of the Six Horses of Zhaoling Mausoleum.

At this time, Chen Wenzhe also realized that it was no wonder that an antique craft factory in Yangluo was able to imitate such perfect six stone carvings of the Six Horses of Zhaoling Mausoleum. It turned out that they had a good template.

Needless to say, this whole set of rubbings must have come from that antique craft factory.

Li Jinli definitely didn't suffer a loss, just buying this whole set of rubbings is worth the fare.

I have admired the real thing before, but now I look at the rubbings from a hundred years ago, and the feeling is the same.

Compared with the real thing, the image in this rubbing looks a bit less interesting.

From this, we can also see how powerful the masters who imitated the set of Zhaoling Six Horses are.

(End of this chapter)