The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

"...Buddha statues from the Sixteen Kingdoms period are quite easy to recognize, except for their small size, the appearance of the Buddha statues is almost the same.

It's basically printed out like a mold, and it doesn't seem to distinguish which one is so, the structure is basically four-legged square sitting + main Buddha + backlight + umbrella cover. Hair styles are generally polished buns, and they look like This ball is very different from the Gandhara-style hair dreadlocks when the Western Regions were introduced.

The forehead of the Buddha statue is relatively wide, and the eyes are flat, and the eyes are big and long, about the size of an almond. "

Speaking of Zhang Nan, he started directly, tried the weight and firmness, then turned on the destruction mode, and unexpectedly removed the "umbrella" on the top of the Lord Buddha's head and the "backlight" on the back.

The "umbrella cover" is inserted on the "backlight", which makes it easy to combine and disassemble.

"Look, the back neck of the Buddha statues of the Sixteen Kingdoms period basically had such a tenon for connecting the backlight, but the backlight and umbrella cover of most of the Buddha statues of the Sixteenth Period discovered have been lost.

In addition, the clothes of this Buddha statue are basically collarless over-shoulder coats, and earlier, the clothing features of Gandhara-style Buddha statues in the Western Regions are mostly over-shoulder coats with the right shoulder and one side of the cover open.

We Huaxia people have always had symmetrical aesthetic characteristics. The original right shoulder of the Western Region Buddha statue changed into a V-shaped or U-shaped collar not long after it reached the Central Plains.

However, there were still Gandhara-style statues of Buddha at that time, but they were not the objects of individual worship, they were usually carved in grottoes.

The Buddha statues praying alone are basically like this statue in action. The knot meditation seals, the knot falls on the square pedestal, the two hands are flat on the legs, one palm is on the other palm, and the hands are placed on the front of the abdomen. The right hand is placed on the left hand, the thumbs are touching, and the foot will never be exposed.

The Gandhara-style statues of Buddhas do not have four-legged square seats. The stand that appeared on the statues of the Sixteen Kingdoms period should have originated from the four-sided couch in the Han Dynasty. The statues of the Sixteen Kingdoms Buddhas were built after the localization of the Gandhara Buddha statue in China. thing.

There are many statues of this Buddha, and this size is even more rare!

Made of bronze, the bottom of the main Buddha is hollow and gilded, all right. "

Now Zach asked weakly: "Boss, the characters after this don't seem to be Chinese characters, right?"

Although I don't know him, Zach can clearly distinguish the Chinese characters that are not Chinese characters.

Upon hearing this, Zhang Nan smiled and said, "You are careful.

It’s not Huaxia if it’s not Chinese characters?

This is the Luwen of Gandhara. It was found on the early Buddha statues of the Sixteen Kingdoms found in the Central Plains of China, but it was all Chinese characters in the middle and late stages.

Imported products, when they were popular at the beginning, they used some imported words to appear higher, ha ha... Maybe it was in the Hexi Corridor, which was a little further west of the Central Plains at that time, or the devotees of Sinicized countries in the Western Regions made offerings, and then flowed into the Central Plains. It's not necessarily..."

Zach and the others know what the Hexi Corridor is and which is the Western Regions. With such a boss, it is not motivated to make up for China’s geography and simple history.

There will be Henry Debosen and the warehouse keeper. Zhang Nan didn’t say anything about Luwen—I saw it in Xijiang, and was still in the collection of Chinese ancient times in the Third Reich Museum in Berchtesgaden. I have seen it on the cultural relics of the Western Regions.

This Luwen was once a common language in ancient Khotan and Shanshan countries, but with the decline of Guishuang, Khotan, and Shanshan, the use of Luwen ceased to be used in the 7th century AD.

Zhang Nan can tell what kind of text this is, but "illiterate". It’s okay. There are more archaeological discoveries in Luwen. Now with the joint efforts of scholars from all over the world, this is an ancient text that can be translated and read. You can find experts who can be recognized after a few phone calls. You should be in New York. have.

"You can't go wrong, Zach, this is an early sixteen kingdoms Buddha statue, a boutique! If I make a mistake, please go back to Fifth Avenue for dinner, and choose any restaurant."

Everyone laughed together—there are a few restaurants on Fifth Avenue that are not cheap. This is a “big deal”. If there is no reservation, many people will not have a place.

It's not that there is no place, there are reserved, it depends on the face.

Of course, Zhang Nan can eat anytime he goes, but bring his 20th bodyguard...

It also has to be booked, because people don't have so many reserved places at all.

Haikou boasted. Speaking of this, Zhang Nan was a little bit emotional, and said to Xiang Weirong: "At that meeting with Lao Ying, I invited a five-centimeter-high bronze Buddha statue of the Sixteen Kingdoms on a stall in Jin Province, an umbrella. The cover and backlight are all off, which is incomparable."

At that time, I was an "apprentice", and I just got rid of the dazedness of returning to the 80s. The life of running around but happy, full of hope, and painful in my heart is gone forever.

"I haven't seen you take it out."

Zhang Nan smiled, "Small things, worthless, have been on the old confession table in the living room, brother-in-law, you may not have paid attention before. You should still be there by the old house now, as if I received the old square table. In his drawer.

There are not many people who know this thing in China, and even fewer people in the south. It cost me 2 yuan to ask for it.

If it weren't for copper, I guess one dollar would be enough. "

Two yuan, renminbi, is equal to how many cents?

In the eyes of Zach, Randy and others, the boss is a big profiteer in his bones!

Buddha statues from 1,500 or 600 years ago, bought for tens of cents, still look too expensive—how dark is the boss’s feelings? !

Is the heart dark?

It's not black. The price was really the same three years ago. How many people will know that it is a Buddha statue from the 16 Kingdom period?

Even if I knew it, it wouldn't cost ten dollars, which was too unremarkable.

Xiang Weirong felt a little speechless, and after thinking about it, he asked, "Then this one?"

"domestic?"

Zhang Nan asked rhetorically.

"Um."

"If you don't know the goods, it will cost a few hundred dollars, even if someone knows the goods, it will cost you a few hundred dollars, one or two thousand dollars.

If you have spare money, it is better to invest in Qing Dynasty official kilns, calligraphy and painting~www.readwn.com~ There are too few people who invite this. It is estimated that it will take more than ten or twenty years to get hot.

Of course, if these texts say that a Buddha statue is custom-made by a king, then there may be several thousand. "

The value is not high, but apart from Zhang Nan, no one will underestimate this unremarkable Buddha statue-early enough, it is still outstanding in the same period!

Putting the backlight back in, Zhang Nan asked, "I forgot to ask, brother-in-law, how is Lao Ying doing now?"

"The capable person, working as the vice president of your little brother, occupying the market everywhere, there are no people at home. His wife sometimes complains to your sister, saying that this vice president is busier than the previous supply and sales clerk.

The same is true for Xiao Nana. She always sees her father, and I'm not happy to call her uncle when I meet her. "

In the latter half of the story, this Weirong also laughed.

The capable people in the Materials Bureau have been dug up all over the place, and even the eldest son of Guo Ju has taken refuge. This kind of complaint is just a joke-I don't know how many times my income has increased, and I am willing to go back and forth.