There are about ten or twenty gorgeous things in the whole statue. The patterns are beautiful and timeless, smooth and full of changes in shape, and the colors are bright. The ever-changing combination of patterns reflects the magnificent and extraordinary magnanimity.

Bronze painting is a wonder of bronze decoration. The painting of this statue uses white material as the bottom layer, and then paints it on top of the bottom layer.

The craftsmen at that time also carved the bottom layer and the painted layer to give the decorative pattern a three-dimensional effect and make the statue look more magnificent.

The number of painted bronze ware discovered so far is not very large. Some experts call it lacquered bronze ware, and some experts call it copper-tied lacquer ware.

Although the names are inconsistent, they are actually the same type of vessels. They are called painted bronze vessels.

This kind of bronze decoration technology mostly appeared in the Shang, Zhou, Qin and Han dynasties, and is still rare in modern bronzes. It is definitely a wonder in the bronze decoration technology.

The value of such a statue far exceeds Han Kongque's estimate. If it can be proven that it came from the palace building office, it will be even more valuable.

Han Kongque took out a strong flashlight and examined the Buddha statue carefully. This Buddha statue was indeed what he thought. It must have taken a long time to make, but it was well preserved.

Not to mention bumps and bumps, it had no flaws at all. Finally, Han Peacock found some writing on the lotus seat. It seemed to be Manchu, with Mongolian at the back and Tibetan at the bottom.

It has appeared in Manchuria, Mongolia and Tibet. It is impossible that there is no Chinese. Han Peacock touched the bottom of the base carefully and felt that there are still words. These words are close to the bottom of the base. They have been placed for a long time and there is some dust, mud or incense ash on it.

It is this dirt that has obscured these writings.

"Forty-five years of Qianlong's reign..."

After groping for a few minutes, Han Peacock finally figured out what was written. On the lotus pedestal, there were four Chinese, Manchu, Mongolian and Tibetan characters engraved. The Chinese text was: "On the seventh day of August in the forty-fifth year of Qianlong's reign, Panchen Erdeni entered the palace."

Danshu Ke enshrines the benefit image of Yang body secret Buddha...".

Seeing this, Han Kongque completely relaxed. His guess was indeed correct. The Gushyamajara Sattva thangka in the Forbidden City was presented to Qianlong at the same time as this Gushyamajra Buddha statue, because the dates recorded on them were the same.

of.

Although such a compact Buddha statue, which was presented as tribute to the Qing court by the Panchen Lama at that time, was not produced in the Qing palace building office, its craftsmanship is no worse than some gilt bronze Buddha statues.

It seems that I will get back the money I spent to buy a house this time. Although I just spent 12 million, this money will definitely not be able to buy such an old collection of the Qing Dynasty.

You know, in recent years, the price of Buddha statues in the Ming and Qing Dynasties has been rising steadily, especially for some large Buddha statues. This Gushyajal Buddha statue is one meter and a quarter high, nearly one meter wide, and fifty or sixty centimeters thick. It is so big.

It is very rare for a clay statue to be so completely preserved.

Due to reasons such as materials and craftsmanship, the size of movable Buddha statues in Chinese statues in the past dynasties is generally small. The size of Tibetan Buddha statues is usually about 20 to 30 centimeters, and those exceeding 50 centimeters are even rarer.

Because of this, in recent years, most of the Buddha statues at the top of the transaction list are large Buddhas. For example, in 2004, Christie's Hong Kong sold a gilt-bronze Buddha statue of King Dawei Deming of the Ming Dynasty for 19.062 million yuan, which was 105.4 centimeters high.

In the autumn of 2005, a Ming Dynasty bronze Medicine Buddha seated statue in the capital Hanhai was sold for 11 million yuan, with a height of 215 centimeters.

At the 2006 Chongyuan International Spring Auction, a Ming Dynasty gilt bronze seated Guanyin Bodhisattva with a height of 87.4 cm was sold for 2.1942 million yuan.

In 2006, the four-sided bronze Buddha of Vairocana from the Ming Dynasty was sold for 4.84 million yuan at the Hanhai spring auction in the capital, with a height of 51 centimeters.

Stone Buddhas and wooden Buddhas are also large Buddha statues that are sold at high prices. In the autumn auction of Christie's in Paris in 2005, a Northern Qi marble Buddha with a head height of 50 centimeters was sold for 448,800 euros.

In the 2006 Christie's Autumn Auction in New York, a Jin Dynasty woodcarving Bodhisattva statue with a height of 160 cm was sold for 6.1529 million yuan.

The highest modern transaction record was in 2013, when a gilt-bronze seated statue of Sakyamuni from Yongle in the Ming Dynasty was sold for 236.44 million.

Although size alone cannot be used as a criterion for measuring Buddha statues, in a feudal society where copper was in short supply, only the palace could usually produce large Buddha statues.

At the same time, the craftsmanship and technical requirements for making large Buddha statues are high and beyond the reach of ordinary craftsmen. This also determines the high quality and exquisiteness of giant Buddha statues. In addition, the number is limited, and those that have been handed down to this day are even rarer. Their value and price are definitely ahead of

A smaller Buddha statue.

For this painted bronze Buddha statue, regardless of whether there is a mark to prove its royal status, as long as it is a large-sized and exquisitely shaped Buddha statue, the price must be very high. If it is collected, it will increase year by year, and there is a lot of room for appreciation.

When they got there, Han Kongque opened the car door. When he looked around, he saw that the Buddha statue was even more gigantic. The empty seat as big as the Passat was still filled with Buddha statues. Fortunately, Li Shuang's petite figure allowed her to sit on the side. Otherwise, it would have been really difficult.

There is no room for two people to sit.

Although the Buddha statue was heavy, Han Kongque still picked it up alone. With Fat Liu leading the way, Han Kongque spent more than ten minutes before moving it into his new house.
Chapter completed!