On January 17th,2009,Asnycnow15 has Launched The Very First Episode of the Newsmagazine "Culture" The Story Was Chinese lawyers will take aim at Christie's in a bid to stop the auction giant from selling two animal sculptures included in the art collection of the late Yves Saint Laurent. They say the items were stolen from the Beijing summer palace in 1860.The two bronze animal heads once adorned the Old Summer Palace, or Yuanmingyuan, and were stolen when Western armies burnt the palace down during the second Opium War in 1860.When announcing the auction last year, Christie’s reportedly estimated the two bronzes were worth up to 28.6 million dollars.
The bronzes were once part of a fountain that displayed the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac. Five of the bronze animal heads have already been returned to China, while the whereabouts of five others is unknown
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