Yuanmingyuan to repair 150 relics

By Jane Chen | March 25, 2010, Thursday |

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THE Old Summer Palace Park in Beijing will repair 150 relics, mostly precious artworks produced during the prime period of the mid Qing Dynasty (1616-1912) that have never be shown to the public.

The artworks include porcelain, jade, glaze, sculptures, instruments used in a Buddhist or Taoist mass and stone carvings uncovered in the ruins of the park, also known as Yuanmingyuan, today's China News Service reported.

Citing park administrators, the report said 3D archives will be set up for each priceless artwork to store its original information and changes during repairs.

Stone carvings will be washed, desalted and consolidated and bronze artworks will be cleaned and decaled. Porcelain fragments will be sorted, cleaned and repaired.

The relics will return to Yuanmingyuan on October 18. They may go on a nationwide tour.

Experts sent by Yuanmingyuan authorities have started a global hunt since late last October for 1.5 million relics looted from the Old Summer Palace during the second opium war in 1860.

They have found some previously unknown lost relics in the United States, palace sources have said.

Chen Mingjie, director of the palace's management office, said earlier that the findings included a painting from the Song Dynasty (960-1279).

An estimated 1.5 million artifacts are believed to have been looted from the site by British and French troops, and scattered around the world, according to Chen.

The Old Summer Palace, built in the 18th century, was known for its extensive collection of gardens, architecture, and other works of art.

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