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Chapter 457 This trip is not in vain
This is a Buddha statue, in the shape of Maitreya Buddha, which is what we often call the big-bellied Buddha.

Dehua white porcelain Buddha statues in southern Fujian in the Qing Dynasty were very famous. Many Chinese who went to Nanyang or the West to build religious temples in the local area would order Buddha statues from the mainland and ship them there.

This kind of behavior was very common in ancient times, including the Tianhou Temple or other Taoist temples opened overseas, many of which were custom-made from China and shipped to them for consecration.

This Maitreya Buddha is really lifelike, with a simple and honest smile.The overall height of the Buddha body is about 20 centimeters. The beads hanging on the neck of the Buddha statue can be clearly counted, and the teeth exposed by the Buddha statue are also clearly countable.

The inside of the Buddha statue is hollow, and there is a lot of silt, which took a lot of effort to clean up.It is estimated that the texture of the porcelain is solid and filled with silt, so it did not shatter like other objects.

The base of a nearby statue of Guanyin Bodhisattva was broken.

If so, Chen Zhengqian is also very happy, as long as most of them are intact, as long as the broken parts are still there, they can be repaired.

Chen Zhengqian just cleaned the surface of Maitreya Buddha briefly, and then put this Buddha statue away. It should be a treasure, and old man Yu should like it.

As for the statue of Avalokitesvara, the base must be dug out first to ensure that the fragments are intact before putting it into the Qiankun bag together.

It was just the beginning, and after digging these two treasures, Chen Zhengqian was full of motivation and continued to dig the soil.

What I regret is that I forgot to bring some professional tools. At that time, I only cared about making more space to store my treasures, and completely forgot the principle of sharpening a knife without cutting wood.

Mistake!
But soon Chen Zhengqian put these annoyances behind him, because he dug up something else——

snuff bottle.

What is a snuff bottle?
Simply put, a snuff bottle is a device for holding snuff.The shape is small and exquisite, and the largest one can hold it with one hand, so it is very easy to carry.

It contains snuff made of scrap tobacco and baked with various spices, which can be inhaled through the nose, so as to achieve the effect of improving eyesight and refreshing.

Snuff was introduced to China by foreign missionaries in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. At first, only people in southern Guangdong liked to smoke snuff.Later, in the Qing Dynasty, snuff became a fashion, and everyone from the emperor to the common people liked to take snuff.

Therefore, various exquisite snuff bottles appeared.

The materials of snuff bottles include agate, ivory, jade, porcelain, bronze, amber, etc., and also include blue and white, colorful, carving, inner painting and other techniques. a sum.

The snuff bottles at that time, in addition to their practicality, also became gifts and status symbols because of their exquisite craftsmanship and appearance.

According to historical records, Kangxi summoned a large number of craftsmen to make a lot of glass snuff bottles for him, many of which are exquisite interior paintings, which have been handed down to this day.

Now, although the hobby of snuff has disappeared, the snuff bottle has been handed down as a fine art and is of extraordinary value.

Although snuff bottles only have a development history of more than 300 years, snuff bottles have become an important collection object in Chinese and Western collection circles due to their small and exquisite appearance and easy-to-handle characteristics. They are also one of the important items in modern Chinese collections.

In a word, snuff bottles are worth money.

The snuff bottle in Chen Zhengqian's hand was made of white porcelain.

After cleaning up the silt on the outside, the warm and white bottle body inside was exposed. The whole body was intact and unbroken, as if time had never played a role on it.

This snuff bottle adopts the embossing technique. The small body of the bottle is engraved with the pattern of double dragons playing with pearls, which is lifelike, which shows the exquisite carving technology at that time.

Including the cork, the overall size is only 7 or 8 centimeters, which is comparable to the length of Chen Zhengqian's middle finger.But even for such a gadget, if it is put on the market, its value will probably not be low.

There is also a blue and white snuff bottle, but compared with the previous one, this one has a flat body. On the front is a five-clawed green dragon flying through the clouds, while the back is blank.

To be honest, Chen Zhengqian felt that this was mediocre, and the value was estimated to be much lower.

Chen Zhengqian hastily washed the sea mud off the two snuff bottles and put them into the universe bag.

This thing is probably not a commodity shipped overseas, it should be a tool of a certain important person on the ship, because there are not many snuff bottles, and there is a broken one, Chen Zhengqian ignored it.

Probably because of the small size of the snuff bottle, it is not so easy to break.

However, Chen Zhengqian was very happy to be able to dig up valuable items, full of happiness.

He is like a hard-working miner, even if he is the only one with such a big treasure in front of him, he is still digging happily.

There is no way, I am still poor, so many valuable things, of course I have to work hard to find them!

Finally, we dug further into the cabin.

The Longquan sword kept cutting through the wooden boards that were in the way. Although these wooden boards were still as new after washing away the mud and had a high degree of corrosion resistance, Chen Zhengqian was not interested at all.

It's not golden nanmu or red sandalwood, it's just a piece of broken wood. Picking up a plate is worth more than it.

Say saucer, and here comes the saucer.

There are a large grid of porcelain bowls and dishes in front of me, overlapping layers and densely packed.

Probably because they were afraid that the sea would be too rough and the cabin would be bumped and the porcelain would be broken, so some straw or rags were stuffed among the dishes.

Now these rags and hay have basically rotted and dissolved, but most of the porcelain has survived.Among them, the dishes and plates are the best preserved, and the bowls are partially broken, but there are also many intact ones.The big one is on the bottom, the small one is on the top, and they are tightly set together.

Chen Zhengqian was so pleasantly surprised that he almost fainted.

Here's to a fortune!
Porcelain bowls and dishes were dug out of the mud by Chen Zhengqian, and the sea mud and rags dissolved in them were washed off, and all of them were as white as new, shining brightly.

What wonderful porcelain, these are symbols of the wisdom of the ancient working people.

Now, everything is cheaper for me, hahahaha...

Just for this big box of dishes, Chen Zhengqian felt that the trip was worthwhile.

No matter how cheap it is, the quantity is here.There are hundreds of plates and dozens of bowls, all of which are top-quality white porcelain, which is far beyond the comparison of the dishes for eating at home.

Even Chen Zhengqian couldn't help being excited, no one saw it anyway, right?
Keep digging, don't stop, my heart is already hungry.

It is impossible for such a large ship to have only such a box of porcelain, there must be others.

After cleaning up part of the silt, Chen Zhengqian dug up another box of porcelain.

　The second update and the third update are not finished yet, probably at 12:[-], sorry.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)