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This bronze is a reproduction of famous Yuan-Ming-Yuan twelve animal heads, 250 years old. These animals heads belong to a part of the Spring allegory, before the buliding 'Hai-Yi-Tang' in Yuan-Ming-Yuan imperial park. During the war in 1860, all of them disapeared from the park. Five pieces only returned back to China after 150 years missing. Three missing pieces are still in western countries. Unfortunatly four of them are lost. Dragon is one of twelve chinese zodiac signs.

Reference BEJ-10067D