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

本研究始于1997年，作为一项国际学术研究的一部分，研究代表访问了北京博物馆，以核实大量未分类的隋唐至清代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镀金青铜佛像进行了检查和拍摄，并对一组6000多件镀金青铜佛像进行了分类并在白塔寺展出。然而，同年开始建设一个展厅，在北京博物馆继续研究其他材料方面出现了困难。为了保存与北京博物馆有关并由北京博物馆拥有的大量中国镀金青铜佛像，在河北边远寺庙和山庄博物馆和辽宁博物馆的协助下，研究人员检查并拍摄了主要来自…的镀金青铜图像在研究的第二年(2002年)，由于对北京博物院原有研究材料的研究遇到了持续的问题，研究人员得到了中国内外私人收藏家的合作，对100多幅中国镀金青铜佛像进行了检查和摄影，努力积累了比较研究的材料。研究人员不仅获得了明清时期的藏式佛像，还获得了许多北魏、隋唐时期的藏式佛像。研究人员对这些图像进行了系统的编目，并对这些图像的理论风格发展进行了调查。在研究的第三年(2003年)，由于非典的爆发，中国的研究中断了，但在问题平息后，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，研究人员收集了一组具有独特风格和形式的中国镀金青铜佛像的资料。研究人员还检查并拍摄了静冈县三岛市佐野博物馆的中国镀金青铜佛像。在三年的研究过程中，通过收集中国的研究资料和国内的二手研究资料，共收集了579条数据(其中268条为参考资料)。此外，研究人员还尝试了对图像进行较小的修复，其中包括被认为源自帝国的“紫宁宫镀金青铜雕像”。有了以上积累的数据和图像材料，研究人员正在发布一份关于年底前允许材料的研究结果的报告，并将向学术界提交这些结果。较少

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