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To: kevin_in_so_cal

Who would want those bronze heads anyway? They are not very attractive and ownership can get a billion people mad at you. Time to return them to China.


3 posted on 03/03/2009 5:51:08 PM PST by Fishing-guy
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To: Fishing-guy

Those bronze heads were crafted by an Italian jesuit as part of a fountain that was itself part of a private amusement park for the Qianlong emperor. Apparently a later empress shared your opinion and thought the things ugly and ordered them removed and put into storage. The looters who ended up taking them likely ransacked them from a warehouse.


6 posted on 03/03/2009 7:48:14 PM PST by cmdjing
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