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<p>[QUOTE="SSlava, post: 4314950, member: 4587"]The sculpture has been in Russia for an indefinite long time. I exchanged the sculpture with an antique dealer I know. And most likely, the sculpture was brought to him by familiar Buddhists. Next to me, 150 kilometers away is the Republic of Kalmykia - Buddhists have been living there for about 800 years)). I just have experience with antiques already (although I can often make mistakes until now). I had a lot of original icons from the 18th and 19th centuries. Therefore, I can say here that the wood of the sculpture has all the signs of natural aging, gold looks exactly the same as on old icons of the 18th century and the aging of gold looks absolutely natural. Where is the new gold or old fakes, I can already distinguish it)). Therefore, I am 95 percent sure that the item is genuine. As for the strangeness of the restoration - since the sculpture was in Russia, we could record it completely. Icons were restored in the same way in the 19th century. Therefore, we could even write down a golden sculpture with something unclear)).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="SSlava, post: 4314950, member: 4587"]The sculpture has been in Russia for an indefinite long time. I exchanged the sculpture with an antique dealer I know. And most likely, the sculpture was brought to him by familiar Buddhists. Next to me, 150 kilometers away is the Republic of Kalmykia - Buddhists have been living there for about 800 years)). I just have experience with antiques already (although I can often make mistakes until now). I had a lot of original icons from the 18th and 19th centuries. Therefore, I can say here that the wood of the sculpture has all the signs of natural aging, gold looks exactly the same as on old icons of the 18th century and the aging of gold looks absolutely natural. Where is the new gold or old fakes, I can already distinguish it)). Therefore, I am 95 percent sure that the item is genuine. As for the strangeness of the restoration - since the sculpture was in Russia, we could record it completely. Icons were restored in the same way in the 19th century. Therefore, we could even write down a golden sculpture with something unclear)).[/QUOTE]
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