
The bronze rat head was taken from the Imperial Summer Palace in Beijing in 1868

A hare bronze which, with the rat figure, was used as a fountain head. They are expected to fetch 10 million euros each in the Paris sale
To: JoeProBono
Any artwork in China stolen from Tibet...?
2 posted on
02/25/2009 12:45:00 PM PST by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: JoeProBono
“...Pierre Berge, Yves Saint Laurent’s former business partner and companion, told the media in Paris...”
Yes, the offer makes perfect sense because the Chinese Communists are always in the habit of negotiating ridiculous blackmail on their national sovereignty with Western homosexuals.
(sarc)
3 posted on
02/25/2009 12:45:27 PM PST by
PGR88
To: pandoraou812; TigerLikesRooster; indcons; Virginia Ridgerunner; Army Air Corps
A little dark humor surfaces on the China/Tibet front.
French fairy tries to blackmail Beijing.
7 posted on
02/25/2009 2:01:30 PM PST by
TigersEye
(This is the age of the death of reason.)
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