流失文物馬首銅像回家
Lost treasure returns home
流失文物馬首銅像回家A bronze horse head sculpture, a treasure from China's Old Summer Palace that went missing after an Anglo-French allied forces' looting 160 years ago, returned to its original palace home Tuesday.
12月1日，圓明園馬首銅像正式迴歸。160年前，英法聯軍搶掠焚燬圓明園後，該文物流失海外。It is the first time that a lost important cultural relic from the Old Summer Palace, or "Yuanmingyuan," has been returned to and housed at its original location after being repatriated from overseas.
馬首銅像是圓明園流失海外重要文物中第一件迴歸併入藏原址的文物。
Twelve animal head sculptures once formed a zodiac water clock in Beijing's Yuanmingyuan, built by Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).
十二生肖獸首銅像原本是圓明園海晏堂前水力鐘的主要構件，鑄造於清朝乾隆年間。
The originals were looted from the royal garden by Anglo-French allied forces in 1860 during the Second Opium War (1856-1860).
1860年，第二次鴉片戰爭期間，圓明園被英法聯軍搶掠焚燬，12尊獸首流失海外。The horse head, designed by Italian artist Giuseppe Castiglione and made by royal craftsmen, is an artistic blend of East and West.
馬首銅像由意大利藝術家郎世寧設計，由宮廷匠師精工製作，融合東西方藝術風格。Macao billionaire Stanley Ho bought the bronze horse head and decided to donate it to the National Cultural Heritage Administration and return it to its original home.
澳門億萬富豪何鴻燊購得馬首銅像並決定將其捐贈給國家文物局，讓它迴歸故里。
