CANBERRA, Oct. 28 (Xinhua)– The National Gallery of Australia (NGA) turned over 2 Chinese cultural antiques to China’s National Cultural Heritage Administration in Canberra on Wednesday.
The 2 antiques are the head of a military main statue and the head of a civil authorities statue, both going back to the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127). According to the NGA, both antiques are made from limestone and stemmed from main China’s Henan Province.
The following is a timeline of significant cultural antiques went back to China from overseas recently:
Sept. 17, 2026:
— The United States returned 64 Chinese cultural antiques and paleontological fossils to China.
May 16, 2025:
— The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art formally returned the Zidanku Silk Manuscript volumes II and III: Wuxing Ling and Gongshou Zhan from the Warring States duration to China’s National Cultural Heritage Administration.
Nov. 9, 2024:
— An overall of 56 lost Chinese cultural antiques were returned from Italy.
June 27, 2024:
— The Chinese Embassy in Argentina got 14 pieces of cultural antiques went back to China from the South American nation.
April 18, 2024:
— China’s unrelenting mission to obtain lost cultural antiques from abroad got a considerable increase, as 38 artifacts were returned by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. The valued haul consists of generally Tibetan Buddhist items covering from the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) to the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).
Feb. 7, 2024:
— An ancient bronze routine vessel that had actually been lost overseas after being taken 40 years ago lastly made its method home.
Discovered in 1978 at a historical site going back to the late Western Zhou Dynasty (1046-771 BC) in Famen Township of Baoji City, northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, the bronze vessel, called “Feng Xingshu Gui” was categorized as the top-grade cultural antique of the state.
May 10, 2023:
— The Consulate General of China in New York got 2 unlawfully carried Chinese cultural antiques from the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
The returned cultural antiques are 2 stone-carved burial place beds going back about 1,100 to 1,600 years, according to the National Cultural Heritage Administration.
Dec. 1, 2020:
— A bronze horse head sculpture, a treasure of China’s Old Summer Palace that went missing out on after Anglo-French allied forces’ robbery 160 years back, went back to its initial palace home. ■
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