Comprehensive Study of Extant Gilt Bronze Statues in China and the Beijing Museum

本研究始于1997年，当时的研究代表团访问北京博物馆，作为国际学术研究的一部分，以核实从隋唐到清代的大量未分类镀金青铜佛像的状况。在研究的最初一年，对数十件状况较好的佛像进行了检查和拍照，对白塔寺内分类陈列的六千多件鎏金铜像进行了报告。然而，展览馆的建设于同年晚些时候开始，在北京博物馆继续研究其他材料时遇到了困难。为了保存北京博物馆收藏的大量中国青铜器佛教造像，在河北省外乡寺山博物馆和辽宁省博物馆的协助下，研究人员对北京博物馆收藏的青铜器造像进行了检查和拍摄，这些造像主要是在1960年至1970年之间。 关于我们 在研究的第二年（2002年），由于北京博物馆收藏的原始研究资料在研究中遇到了持续的问题，研究人员得到了国内外私人收藏家的合作，研究拍摄了一百多件中国镀金青铜佛像，为比较研究积累资料。研究者不仅获得了明清时期的藏传佛教造像，而且还获得了更早的北方魏、隋、唐时期的大量造像。研究人员对这些图像进行了系统的分类，并对图像的理论风格发展进行了调查。在研究的第三年（2003年），由于SARS的爆发，中国的研究中断，但问题平息后，研究人员前往云南。在云南省博物馆和大理市博物馆的合作下，研究人员能够收集到一组具有独特风格和形式的中国镀金青铜佛像的材料。研究人员还检查并拍摄了来自静冈县三岛市佐野博物馆的中国镀金青铜佛像。在三年的研究中，沿着国内的二次研究，研究者收集和积累了579个项目的数据（其中268个是参考资料）。此外，研究人员能够尝试对图像进行小规模修复，包括“慈宁宫镀金青铜雕像”，据认为来自帝国。利用上述积累的数据和图像材料，研究人员正在年底前发表一份关于许可材料研究结果的报告，并将向学术界介绍这些结果。少

The present study began when research delegates visited the Beijing Museum in 1997 as part of an international academic study to verify the conditions of the enormous number of unclassified gilt bronze Buddhist images dating from the Sui and Tang Dynasties to the Qing Dynasty.During the initial year of research, dozens of images in comparatively good condition were examined and photographed, with a report produced on a group of over six thousand gilt bronze images that are classified and displayed in the Baita Temple. However, construction of an exhibition hall began late that same year, and difficulties developed in continuing the research of other materials in the Beijing Museum. As a means to maintain the great amount of Chinese gilt bronze Buddhist images connected to and owned by the Beijing Museum, with the assistance of the Outlying Temples and Mountain Resort Museum in Hebei and the Liaoning Museum, researchers examined and photographed gilt bronze images dating primarily from … More the Qing Dynasty, collected iconographic and textual data on image measurements and designations, and began the creation of a database.During the second year of research (2002), due to the continuing problems encountered in the study of the original research materials in the possession of the Beijing Museum, researchers received the cooperation of private collectors both inside and outside of China, examined and photographed over one hundred Chinese gilt bronze Buddhist images, and worked toward the accumulation of material for a comparative study. Researchers obtained not only casted Tibetan-style Buddhist images from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, but also many casted Buddhist images from the, older Northern Wei, Sui, and Tang Dynasties. Researchers systematically catalogued the images and were able to produce a survey of the theoretical stylistic development of the images.During the third year of research (2003), study in China was interrupted due to the outbreak of SARS, but after the problem subsided, researchers traveled to Yunnan. With the cooperation of the Yunnan Museum and Dali Municipal Museum, researchers were able to gather material on a group of Chinese gilt bronze Buddhist images possessing unique style and form. Researchers also examined and photographed Chinese gilt bronze Buddhist images from the Sano Museum in Mishima City, Shizuoka Prefecture. During the three years of study, with the collected research from China along with the secondary domestic research, researchers amassed and accumulated data from five hundred and seventy-nine items (among which two hundred and sixty-eight are reference materials). Moreover, researchers were able to attempt the minor restoration of images including the "gilt bronze statues in the Tz'u-ning Palace'," thought to have derived from the Imperial. Palace.With the above accumulated data and iconographic materials, researchers are in the process of publishing a report on the research findings of permissible material by year's end, and will present these findings to the scholarly community. Less