China: Bronze statue of a bull's head, Qianlong Period (1736-1795), looted from the Old Summer Palace in Beijing, 1860

The Old Summer Palace (Yuan Ming Yuan) was a complex of three large gardens. It was built during the Qing dynasty for Emperor Qianlong (1711 - 1799). The palace and gardens were seriously damaged by Anglo-French troops in 1860 after the Second Opium War, and again during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900. Little is left today.

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