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Anonymous users2024-02-11As of 2014, only the head of the rat, the head of the ox, the head of the tiger, the head of the rabbit, the head of the horse, the head of the monkey and the head of the pig were bought back to the mainland, the head of the dragon is in Taiwan, and the head of the snake, the head of the sheep, the head of the chicken and the head of the dog are missing. The details are as follows:
1. The bronze statues of the 12 zodiac animal heads in the Old Summer Palace - the head of the rat and the head of the rabbit were donated back.
At 11 a.m. on April 26, 2013, Song Xinchao, Deputy Director of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, and Duan Yong, Director of the Department of Museums and Social Cultural Relics, met with Mr. François-Henri Pinault, Chairman and CEO of the French PPR Group, in Beijing. On behalf of the Pinault family, Mr. Pinault said that he would donate the bronze rat heads and rabbit heads from the 12 major water methods of the Old Summer Palace that were lost overseas to China**.
2. The bronze statue of the 12 zodiac animal heads in the Old Summer Palace - the head of the ox was photographed back by Poly Group.
In the 2000 auction in Hong Kong, Poly Group won the bull's head for HK$7 million, which is now stored in the Poly Art Museum in Beijing, a subsidiary of Poly, for public viewing.
3. The bronze statue of the 12 zodiac animal heads in the Old Summer Palace - the head of the horse, was photographed back by Dr. Stanley Ho.
Dr. Stanley Ho, a consultant for National Treasure Engineering, purchased the statue for HK$69.1 million ahead of the auction on 20 September and announced that it would be donated to the country.
4. The bronze statue of the 12 zodiac animal heads in the Old Summer Palace - the pig's head, the only one to return in a public welfare way.
At the beginning of 2003, the China Special Project for Rescuing Lost Overseas Cultural Relics found the whereabouts of the pig's head in the United States. After a lot of hard work, the American collector agreed to transfer the pig's head to the **.
In September 2003, Stanley Ho donated more than 600 yuan to the ** to buy back the bronze statue of the pig's head. It was then donated to Poly Group and stored at the Poly Art Museum in Beijing for public viewing.
5. The bronze statue of the 12 zodiac animal heads in the Old Summer Palace - the head of the tiger was photographed back by Poly Group.
In the 2000 auction in Hong Kong, Poly Group won the auction at three times the reserve price, that is, HK$14 million, and is now in the Poly Art Museum in Beijing for public viewing.
6. The bronze statue of the 12 zodiac animal heads in the Old Summer Palace - the monkey head, was taken back by Poly Group.
In the 2000 auction in Hong Kong, Poly Group won the auction for HK$7.4 million, which is now in the Beijing Poly Art Museum for public viewing.
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Anonymous users2024-02-10It is a display of status for the country, and at the same time, the bronze statue of the head of the zodiac animal originally belonged to our country, and it should have returned to the embrace of the country.
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Anonymous users2024-02-09It condenses thousands of years of cultural history in our country. The history of the zodiac is long, and it is the crystallization of China's cultural history, and it is of great historical significance.
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Anonymous users2024-02-08He represents the highest level of craftsmanship in China's Qing Dynasty, and the collections collected in the Old Summer Palace are all treasures in the world, which are not ordinary collections that can enter, and it also represents the history of China's zodiac culture.
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Anonymous users2024-02-07It is said that several faucets in the Western garden of the Old Summer Palace, and the design and supervision were all made by foreigners.
Compared with the countless treasures of the time, I think that this beast head is worthless, it should be hyped up by later generations, and then it was given that history to be so famous, the above is my hearsay.
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Anonymous users2024-02-06As of December 5, 2020, the seven bronze statues of animal heads lost in the Old Summer Palace in Shenfan have returned to the motherland in different ways.
Among them, the bronze statue of the pig's head and the bronze statue of the horse's head were purchased by Mr. He Hong in 2003 and 2019 respectively and returned to the state. On April 26, 2013, the French Pinault family announced in Beijing that they would donate rat and rabbit heads to China free of charge.
On November 13, 2019, He Hong donated the bronze statue of the horse's head to the State Administration of Cultural Heritage and returned it to the permanent collection of the Old Summer Palace. The whereabouts of the remaining five are still unknown. On December 1, 2020, the bronze statue of the horse's head was donated by Mr. He Hong and officially returned to the Old Summer Palace.
During its most glorious period, the Old Summer Palace housed some of the world's most precious historical relics, including bronzes from the Qin Dynasty, calligraphy, paintings and treasures of famous people from all dynasties and generations. >>>More
The bronze statues of the head of the ox, the head of the monkey, the head of the tiger, the head of the pig and the head of the horse have been returned to China and are collected in the Poly Art Museum; On April 26, 2013, the French Pinault family announced in Beijing that they would donate the bronze rat heads and rabbit heads in the 12 major water methods of the Old Summer Palace to the Chinese side free of charge. The dragon's head is currently in Taiwan, well preserved, but will not be seen anytime soon. The whereabouts of snake heads, chicken heads, dog heads, and sheep heads are unknown. >>>More
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The Old Summer Palace is located in the northwest suburbs of Beijing, in the east of Haiding District.
The Old Summer Palace is a treasure of China's garden art, once had the title of "Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens", there are all kinds of gardens in the Old Summer Palace, well, if it is still 140 years ago. It must be a well-deserved world garden,..