Posted 2 years ago
Golgatha
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Here's a Chinese gilt bronze figure of Wenchang Wang. Late Ming. 16.-17. century. 34 cm high. His hu scepter or tablet is missing. What amazes me is that it seems to have been three sided ! All other hu scepters or tablets I've seen were flat. Do you have an explanation ?
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Thanks for the comment. Can you explain ?
because i don,t believe this piece at all, but i am running ‘The Evolution of Bronze Style in the Jin, Yuan and Early Ming Dynasties, and did a lot a lot of MING my self , but that was 15 years ago
and i need a break i am only here for therapeutic reasons
Thanks Prostata. So you're a forger ? Are a forger's words to be trusted ?
actually to be honest i don,t trust this, there is no serenity in the eyes, it is just an incision , like cutting chees, with an cheese knife , the eyebrows are angular as a sort of added modeling in the mould
vertical application which looks an easy way out application in the above the head frontal
the statue don,t have flaking or granula forming and it is just vanishing of the gilt, also the gilt should have had corroded into a more yellow patina
the gilt is very shallow , and beneath the gilt there is a strange kind of patina , actually this coating is unknown to me as patina
I'm familiar with open work thrones pieces during the ming dynasty, but I don't know this in this way
basically you are committed to wave spike wave pattern thrones, see
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Beeld - Brons, fijne vergulding - A MAGNIFICENT BRONZE FIGURE OF WENCHANG WANG - China - Ming Dynastie (1368-1644)
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NR. 35370759 catawiki
actually i think it is a recent piece with a not so promising mould
as far as i know i have never faked or forged anything, but that offers little comfort, because i have many nasty qualities
I've consulted an independant, Chinese expert on oriental art. He has confirmed that the figure is as old as it looks to be. Now I'm considering how to make a copy of the lost hu scepter or tablet. I know what they looked like.