China opposes Christie’s sale of two Old Summer Palace bronzes
Christie’s offered bronze rabbit and rat heads looted from Beijing’s Old Summer Palace in the nineteenth century. A French court declined to block the sale, and the winning bidder refused to pay. François-Henri Pinault returned both heads to China in 2013. Photo: the two bronzes, Xinhua via MIT Visualizing Cultures.
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