One of China s most exquisite pieces of all-bronze architecture recently witnessed the return of its long-lost precious component. On Thursday, the bronze window panel on the Baoyun Pavilion of the Summer Palace in Beijing was donated by three benefactors after an auction in France, part of an evolving trend in repatriating cultural artifacts on the international stage.
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A lost core portion of a window that was once part of one of China’s biggest bronze structures inside an imperial garden from the Qing Dynasty (1644–1911) has returned home following a donation.