After the transaction was completed, Chu Chen asked Nian Dasha for a clean rag, wiped the surface slightly, and then picked up the statue and prepared to put it at the door, but with this hug, he immediately felt that the weight of this statue seemed to be a little wrong!

"Is there something wrong with this statue?"

Although there were such doubts, Chu Chen was still very calm on the surface, after he carried the thing to the door of the room, he hurriedly used the ability, and the result was indeed the same as he thought, there was indeed a thing hidden inside, but that thing surprised him.

Considering that this place was still in the territory of the original owner's house, Chu Chen hurriedly cleaned up his mood and walked back to the house.

Nian Dasha, who had earned almost a month's living expenses, was in a good mood, and when he saw Chu Chen walking in, he hurriedly asked with a smile on his face: "Boss Chu, do you need anything else?" ”

Chu Chen saw that the others were still picking things, so he said, "I'll take a look first." ”

"You can see, the price is negotiable......"

As mentioned earlier, although there are many things in Nian Dasha's room, there are really few good things, and then, Chu Chen used his ability to investigate again, and found that except for the things in Zhu Dafu's hands, there are no too good goods. However, with the old beeswax Buddha statue and a statue with hidden mysteries, he was already quite satisfied.

The things in Meng Yixian and Qiao Qingtai's hands are just stationery items such as pen holders and inkstones, although Chu Chen didn't look carefully, he can also see that the things are still quite ordinary, if there are no accidents, there should be nothing worth more than 10,000 yuan in them.

However, the things selected by Zhu Dafu are not too common, it is a set of four-linked silver and blue burning medicine bottles.

"Silver burnt blue" is also known as silver tire enamel. It is made of silver as the fetus, and the silver filigree is used to pinch out the pattern on the tire. It is then filled with transparent and translucent enamel glaze on the silver tire pattern, and fired many times at a low temperature of about 500 to 600 degrees. The work is gorgeous, bright and unique.

This craft was made at the end of the 13th century. Invented by Italian craftsmen, colorful transparent majolica appeared in France in the 14th century. So far, it has been found that the earliest physical object in China is the "silver burnt blue" Wufu longevity Bafang box in the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, which has royal blue, light blue, light green, red, yellow, white and other color enamel, good transparency, transparent color, belongs to the mature period of products, so its origin should be no later than the end of the 17th century.

The cloisonné process is similar to that of burnt blue, but due to the different composition of the blue material. The final "blue" of cloisonné is not as transparent as the watercolor of burnt blue.

Generally speaking, the silver enamel process is mostly used to make zuò boxes, jars, bottles or small ornaments, and the products can be inlaid with agate, turquoise and other decorations as needed.

Silver is precious and strong, while enamel glazes are crystal clear, smooth and highly decorative, as well as resistant to abrasion and corrosion. As a palace furnishings, it can add color to the palace, as a royal living utensils, and can reflect the noble status of the feudal emperor.

The quadruple medicine bottle in Zhu Dafu's hand is a string of four-square vials. Connected together with door-leaf-like hinges. The vial has the name of the drug written on one side and various patterns carved on the other, and it looks like the workmanship is quite exquisite, but because this thing may have a long history. The surface is somewhat blackened by oxidation, so it does not look very remarkable.

Considering that he was still at Nian Dasha's house, Chu Chen was a little curious about what was going on. But he didn't ask for something to come and appreciate it.

Nian Dasha was very happy to see that he had another sum of money in his account. And in his eyes, Zhu Dafu and others have much better eyesight than Chu Chen. Therefore, the quoted price is not low, and it bites very hard. Either way, he didn't know the true value of the items, so the last three of them pocketed them for a price that was about the same.

Everyone came out of the house with their things, and saw the wooden statue that Chu Chen had placed at the door.

"Huh!"

Seeing Chu Chen walking straight to the statue, Zhu Dafu sighed lightly: "Xiaochen, this is what you chose?" ”

"I think this thing is quite strange, and I'm going to study it."

Chu Chen nodded with a smile, and said again: "It's not too early, let's go back, right?" ”

Zhu Dafu and the others originally wanted to study what was so special about this statue, but when they heard Chu Chen say this, they remembered that this is the master's house after all, in case this is a good thing, isn't this a plug for Nian Dasha? So everyone nodded yes in unison.

Because the wooden statue is not small, Nian Dasha helped find a van nearby, and then everyone took their leave.

There is a way that wealth is not exposed, because the driver is not an acquaintance, Chu Chen and the others sitting in the car did not discuss the harvest just now, and talked about the interesting things they had experienced.

Talking and laughing, time passed quickly, and everyone felt that it was only a while before the car arrived at the hotel where Chu Chen and the others were staying.

Chu Chen moved the statue to his room, and Zhu Dafu and the others took out the harvest and put it on the table in Chu Chen's room.

Meng Yi first pointed to the two pieces of jade on the table and said, "Let's talk about how these two pieces of jade are distributed first!" ”

Zhu Dafu said: "This old ornament must have been given to Lao Qiao, everyone has no opinion, right?" ”

Chu Chen and Meng Yixian shook their heads and said that they had no opinion, and Qiao Qingtai hurriedly arched his hand to everyone to express his gratitude.

After determining the ownership of this jade plate, Meng Yixian asked, "What about this jade plate?" ”

Zhu Dafu smiled when he heard this: "Xiao Meng, you also know that I like to collect jade, can you give me this jade plate?" ”

This kind of jade plate is still very uncommon, and Meng Yixian also likes it, but Zhu Dafu is his old friend after all, and Zhu Dafu really likes jade.

So he smiled and said, "It's okay to give it to you, but you have to give me this quadruple medicine bottle, no problem, right?" ”

"Okay! No problem! Zhu Dafu nodded again and again, although the four-linked medicine bottle is quite rare, but compared to the jade he likes, it is not worth mentioning.

After Chu Chen put the statue away, he picked up the group of medicine bottles and looked at it, this group of medicine bottles was embossed with the names of the four medicines "Wolong Dan, Sha Pill Pill, Red Spirit Pill, Ping'an San" on one side, and the dark "fan and sword" were embossed on the other side; flower blue, flute; gourd, jade plate; Lotus and fish drums" eight patterns representing the eight immortals.

In addition, the medicine bottle is based on light blue, purple red, lake blue, and dark blue enamel, which brings out the simplicity of the text and the vividness of the magic weapon. The side of the bottle is engraved with spring peony, summer lotus, autumn chrysanthemum, late winter cold plum four season flowers, smooth lines, elegant posture.

This group of silver and blue burning medicine bottles, the workmanship is quite exquisite, from the point of view of technology, it should be made by the palace office in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, it is a special thing for the imperial doctor at that time, and it is a very rare object.

Meng Yi waited for Chu Chen to finish reading the thing, and then asked, "Xiao Chu, how is this thing?" ”

Chu Chen said with a smile: "The thing is from the middle Qing Dynasty, it is very good, it can be regarded as a masterpiece of silver and blue." ”

Seeing Chu Chen say this, Meng Yixian was very happy, and after taking the medicine bottle in his hand, he couldn't put it down.

At this time, Zhu Dafu asked: "Xiaochen, I had the impression before, it seems that you didn't just buy this statue, right?" ”

Chu Chen smiled and took the Buddha statue out of his bag, and when everyone saw the Buddha statue, they were a little stunned. For Nian Dasha, he would still think of old beeswax as Xiuyu, but for experienced old people, it was obvious at a glance that this Buddha statue was made of high-quality old beeswax.

Qiao Qingtai asked with a surprised face, "This is old beeswax?" ”

Chu Chen nodded and said, "Yes, I think this is a statue of the Buddha crossing the sea carved with old beeswax during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty." ”

When everyone heard that it was the Yongle period, they were even more surprised, and they started to observe it.

After a while, Zhu Dafu put down the Buddha statue in his hand and exclaimed: "It's really a good thing, the beeswax texture is excellent, not to mention old enough, and the carving is also extremely exquisite." ”

Qiao Qingtai was also full of praise while looking at it, and Meng Yixian asked next to him: "Xiao Chu, I think the workmanship of this Buddha statue is really outstanding, but this Buddha statue does not belong to the year, why do you think that it is the year of Yongle?" ”

"Then I'll get an axe at the door of the class, if there's anything wrong, please forgive me!"

Chu Chen smiled, and then began to explain: "First of all, the craftsmanship of this Buddha statue is completely different from the jade carved Buddha statues in the Qing Dynasty, which is basically based on the understanding of the Buddha in the minds of the Han craftsmen, and the vicissitudes of life left over from the material characteristics and time are also far earlier than those of the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, no matter how you look at it, the time of carving of this Buddha statue should be in the Ming Dynasty. ”

Hearing this, all three of them nodded in agreement.

Chu Chen continued: "Historical data say that the Yongle Emperor's admiration for the Tibetan living Buddha has reached the point of irreparability, when the court made a large number of Buddha statues, and the bronze Buddha statues we usually see with "Ming Yongle Nian Shi" are mostly made in this period, but the craftsmen who make the Zuò are mostly from South Asian countries, and their Buddha statue products obviously have a completely different artistic style from the Han Buddha statues. ”

This was not the case when it came to carving materials such as jade and beeswax, as these foreign craftsmen at the time did not know how to make zuò and could not process these hard materials in a rigorous and artistic way. Therefore, the production of such utensils still depends on the craftsmen of the mainland. ”

However, due to the procedural influence of the bronze Buddha statues, the physical style of the jade Buddha statues is obviously close to the style of the bronze Buddha statues, which forms a new style of Sino-Tibetan combination. And the treatment of the face of my Buddha statue is basically the same as the shape of the Yongle Bronze Buddha. The clothing pattern and other aspects are also in line with the characteristics of the Yongle period. ”

"In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, as the emperors gradually accepted the doctrine of Taoism, they gradually became indifferent to Tibetan Buddhism, even if there were occasional jade Buddha statues in the court, the style of making zuò was completely sinicized, and there was no trace of Tantric charm and style......" (to be continued......