Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1527: Children, don’t praise too much

This sentence made everyone laugh, but for a moment they forgot the "gold content" in Mr. Wang's words.

Mi Tuoseng is also called "Golden Furnace Bottom" and "Silver Furnace Bottom". As the name suggests, it is the sulfide galena mineral slag deposited during the refining of silver and lead.

Traditional Chinese medicine mainly uses its functions of drying dampness, killing insects, antiseptics, and astringent to treat eczema, aphtha, body odor, rosacea, burns, sores and ulcers that have not converged for a long time.

Later, painters discovered that its moisture-drying and astringent function could also be used in lacquer art. In addition to incidental functions such as insecticide and anti-corrosion, it could also control the drying time of lacquer according to different ratios.

With it, the complexing time of lacquer can be shortened without affecting the strength and structure of the lacquer tire, and it soon became the fixed formula for the bottom tire mortar of Chinese bodiless lacquerware.

The Mitra contains a large amount of lead residue, and of course lead isotope dating can also be used at the same time.

"We can take samples from the thickest places inside the carcass, which will not affect the appearance and strength of the sculpture." Director Zhang began to study the implementation plan: "We will first do thermoluminescence dating on the removed samples, and then Later, the sample will be divided into two parts, one for carbon 14 and one for lead isotopes.”

Zhou Zhi couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. Three samples became two, which at least reduced the loss by one-third.

The specific location for sampling is also relatively easy to find, which is the folded place of the petals in the rosette at the bottom of the statue.

Because it has to bear the weight of the entire statue, the thickness of the rosette is the thickest among the entire statues. A small circle of samples can be cut out from the inner edge of the cavity with a diagonal knife, which is enough for testing.

After the plan was approved by everyone, the specific operation required Director Zhang to bring his assistant. Because the sampling environment for thermoluminescent samples is quite harsh and must be carried out in a darkroom similar to the film development room of a photo studio, so it still had to be done. Change lab.

During the sampling process there, we continued to discuss the three statues here.

Jin Shen felt very sorry for the provenance of the cultural relics. After looking through the information brought by Zhou Zhi, he sighed and said: "This is another discovery similar to the Hejiacun cellar. It is hidden alone. It is unclear where it came from and cannot be found. Waiting for more discoveries at related sites.”

"Yes, these three statues should have been passed down and worshiped for many years. Later, for some unknown reason, they were taken to Wangwu Township in Yiling, sealed with clay and shaped into the Swallowing Bodhisattva." Zhou Zhi said on the side. Distribute information to everyone while explaining the discovery process of these three statues: "The so-called Tunkou Bodhisattva, also called the Tunkou God, is a small god in Sichuan who is similar to the city god. The fiefdom under his jurisdiction is even smaller, usually The patron saint of a township or town.”

"Wangwu Township belongs to the rescue scope of our Three Gorges Cultural Preservation Foundation. These three statues of the Swallowing Bodhisattva are extremely crude and worthless, but the stone niche dedicated to the Bodhisattva is well carved and has some value."

"So we decided to demolish it and store it temporarily at the base of Shudu Wood Comprehensive Plant."

"As a result, due to the lack of meticulous work of the local staff, the Swallowing Bodhisattvas in the stone niches were packed together. I happened to take the delivery vehicle back to Shudu, and on the way I found that the three Swallowing Bodhisattvas were hollow. They were still hemp gray tires, which were obviously different from clay sculptures, so when we arrived in Shudu, we found a few water tanks to soak them in. "I didn't imagine that they were such old things at the time. I just thought they were worthless. The Swallowing Bodhisattva must be worth it. I didn’t expect that after being soaked in mud for a week, it would be so typical of the Northern Qi Dynasty. The offering plaque on the back still had the name of Tianbao and Yang Min, so I didn’t dare to neglect it.”

"It's really a blessing." Xia Gengqi couldn't help but feel frightened when Zhou Zhi talked about this process. If it weren't for the staff's mistakes, the fate of these three statues would have been thrown into the garbage dump, or destroyed on the spot. Fallen fate.

Even if it was thrown into the car, if I hadn't met Zhou Zhi in the car, who checked the cultural relics on the car out of boredom, and carefully discovered the strangeness of the statue, I guess the things would have been taken to the wooden heald factory, and they were also left behind by the shrine and the earthen doll. The fate of destruction.

Now that he can be brought to the National Museum, what Xia Gengqi said is "a blessing from heaven" is really appropriate.

Jin Shen patted Zhou Zhi on the shoulder: "The most important thing is that Zhou Zhi has a good nature. He discovered the statue of the Three Saints alone in the darkroom. Only God knows. If he hid the statue or made up one at random, It’s not difficult at all to make it your own collection.”

"But after he found out, he contacted Mr. Wang as soon as possible, and then sent them to the National Museum of China as soon as possible. This is because he has a good heart and does not deceive the dark room. Gu Zang Boyu's gentlemanly style."

Only then did everyone remember, yes, Zhou Zhi just had to find an excuse to dispose of the Swallowing Bodhisattva that was about to be discarded, and no one would find anything wrong.

Then during the whole process, no one knew that there was such a treasure hidden in Tunkou Bodhisattva, and these three statues could be stolen by him. After that, he could casually say which house he bought them from, and no one would have any doubts.

Those who are familiar with this thing will know its value at a glance. As the saying goes, "open your eyes and open the door." Even if the results of the scientific dating method have not yet come out, its artistic value is obvious.

The auction prices of later Northern Qi statues, whether gold, bronze or carved in stone, have repeatedly exceeded 100 million. Even now, with such exquisite and complete sets of fine products, if Zhou Zhi is willing, he can easily get them for 5 to 6 million.

However, he still sent the statue of the Three Saints of Huayan that he found to the National Museum, obviously to hand it over to the state. It cannot but be said that this human nature has completely withstood the temptation of money.

Everyone looked at Zhou Zhi with admiration. Only Mr. Wang looked at Versailles where everyone was envious of his son's future: "This is what he should do. Back then, when we were conducting calligraphy and painting appraisals across the country, we didn't have so many famous calligraphy and paintings." Put it in your own pocket, right?"

Qi Lao himself was envied. He knew Zhou Zhi only a few days later than Mr. Wang, and he put in as much effort in teaching Zhou Zhi as he did with Mr. Wang. However, he did not take advantage of this position and insisted on being an old man. According to the rules of the capital, Mr. Wang is called the master of the family, and he is at best the master.

I had no choice but to secretly reply angrily: "How much were our paintings and calligraphy worth at that time? What is the price of high-quality antiques now? If you ask me to tell you, I should be realistic. When you and I are as old as my elbow, I don't think so. Dare to boast that he has such a character!"

This is what Mr. Wang clearly wanted to hear, but now he chuckled and said: "The younger generation should help more and don't praise them too much. It will be bad for their future..."

(End of this chapter)