Marble columns from Old Summer Palace coming home from Norway

Source: Agencies/Shanghai Daily | February 11, 2014, Tuesday |

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Seven marble columns from the Old Summer Palace in Beijing, acquired more than a century ago by a former Norwegian cavalry officer who had settled in China, are set to return home this fall under an agreement between a Norwegian museum and a Chinese billionaire, The New York Times reported.

The columns are part of a 2,500-piece collection of Chinese artifacts in the KODE Art Museums of Bergen that were donated by Johan Wilhelm Normann Munthe between 1907 and 1935, the report said.

Under the terms of the agreement reportedly reached in December, Huang Nubo, a real estate developer perhaps best known outside of China for trying to purchase land in Iceland to build a golf resort, will donate 10 million Norwegian krone, about US$1.6 million, to the museum, according to the report.

In return, the columns will be sent back to China this September and displayed at Peking University, Mr. Huang’s alma mater, its reported.

Huang, chairman of Beijing-based Zhongkun Investment Group, was 161st on the Forbes list of the richest Chinese in 2010.

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Marble columns from Old Summer Palace coming home from Norway

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