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It's a bunny old world

Updated: Feb 22, 2023 By Lin Qi China Daily Print
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A traditional Chinese flower-and-bird painting by artist Yuan Yao of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), also on show. [Photo provided to China Daily]

"And the style of the cup is believed to have evolved from 'yu (feathers) shang (cup)', a unique wine cup with two expansive handles like that of a bird's wings," she says. "For example, one such cup was mentioned in Lantingji Xu (Preface to the Collection of Poems of the Orchid Pavilion), a piece of prose by the fourth-century calligrapher Wang Xizhi."

Another highlight at the exhibition is a bronze rabbit head, formally one of the 12 zodiac animal statues, which served as heads of a water-clock fountain at Yuanmingyuan, the Old Summer Palace. It was looted during the Second Opium War (1856-60) and transported abroad, before being returned in 2013.

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