A bronze horse head, a 3,000-year-old bronze water vessel and a 2,800-year-old bronze ritual vessel were among 30 artefacts believed to have been stolen. This was the largest return of relics to mainland China from Taiwan in recent years.
And they are the latest in a series of lost artefacts to have found their way back to Beijing, as a resurgent China steps up efforts to bring its national treasures home. Some of these were looted during wartime – most famously during the sacking of Beijing’s Old Summer Palace or Yuanmingyuan, by Anglo-French forces in 1860, which China regards as a national shame.
Meanwhile, the rat and rabbit heads from the same fountain were donated to China in 2013 by the wealthy French Pinault family, which had significant business interests in China.Another recovered Yuanmingyuan treasure that has made waves is the Tiger Ying, a 3,000-year-old bronze water vessel shaped like a teapot. It is so named because its spout and lid have casts of tigers.
When Feng Xingshu Gui, a 2,800-year-old bronze ritual vessel, was returned to China earlier this year by an American entrepreneur and his mother, the head of China’s national cultural heritage administration lauded this as a significant achievement following from a meeting between Mr Xi and US President Joe Biden.
But this approach has been controversial. Experts say that it inflates the price of the relics, and compromises China’s ability to recover stolen artefacts through legal channels. The 30 Buddhist artefacts donated by Taiwan’s United Association of Humanistic Buddhism, Chunghua, were from “warm-hearted” overseas Chinese collectors, said a representative from the association.
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