Old Summer Palace bronze heads
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old-summer-palace-bronze-heads-229-4080274
title:
Old Summer Palace bronze heads
text:
The Twelve Old Summer Palace bronze heads are a collection of bronze fountainheads in the shape of the Chinese zodiac animals that were part of a water clock fountain in front of the Haiyantang building of the Xiyang Lou area of the Old Summer Palace in Beijing. Believed to have been designed by the Jesuit Giuseppe Castiglione for the Qianlong Emperor, the statues would spout out water from their mouths to tell the time. The bronze-cast heads of the stone statues were among the treasures looted
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Bronze heads associated with Chinese zodiac
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Summer_Palace_bronze_heads
date created:
2007-09-22T03:53:43Z
date modified:
2024-09-15T14:53:42Z
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