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 buildi
The original figures in a drawing before the looting with all 12 head figures
The site of the water fountain in 2013
Circle of Animals Zodiac heads
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The Old Summer Palace, also known as Yuanmingyuan or Yuanmingyuan Park, originally called the Imperial Gardens, and sometimes called the Winter Palace, was a complex of palaces and gardens in present-
Old Summer Palace bronze heads
…a water clock fountain in front of the Haiyantang (Chinese: 海晏堂; pinyin: Hǎiyàntáng) building of the Xiyang Lou (Western style mansions) area of the Old Summer Palace in Beijing. Believed to have been designed by the Jesuit Giuseppe Castiglione with fountains engineered by Jesuit Michel Benoist for the Qianlong…
Remains of the Old Summer Palace
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