Posted By: Brad
Posted Date: May 01, 2025 (08:03 AM)
I’ve had this bronze Shakyamuni Buddha for a couple years. For research purposes I removed the copper base plate to see if it held any items. It was carefully opened, and was empty. But the interior gave me a lot of interest information. For one the inside has gone through Secondary Mineralization with a very large bloom of Fibrous/Botryoidal Malachite forming at the top of the inside of the head cavity. White oval, rice shaped specks are also present throughout interior which is probably calcite. Original interior clay core remnants which are now this patchy “wheaties” texture. The colors of the interior vary from red, brown, green, blue, purple, and white. The exterior never stood out to me as anything spectacular. The robes do flow nicely, and the quality seems great! But when I examined the insides it reveals a microclimate rich with ages of mineralization and being kept in a dark humid area. I’ve never come across a piece with this amount of malachite. Usually I see a thin warty blooms but not like this. It’s lost wax casted measuring 8” tall by 6” wide, and weighing 3lbs 4oz.
Any info on this would be helpful!
