How old are the lions at the back entrance of the British Museum? Were they procured from China?
Doing some research and would just like to know how long those lions at the back entrance of the British Museum have been there and if they were originally from CHINA!
There are carved stone lions, having crossed front paws, by Sir George Frampton – part of the Burnet Tait scheme for the Edward VII Galleries. Date from just before WW1.
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The bronze lions at the British Museum were made in England by sculptor Alfred Stevens in 1852.
The marble lion at the British Museum was made in the city of Knidos in Asia Minor (now Turkey) somewhere around 300 BC.
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http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pe_mla/t/the_british_museum_lion.aspx
There are carved stone lions, having crossed front paws, by Sir George Frampton – part of the Burnet Tait scheme for the Edward VII Galleries. Date from just before WW1.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/301501719/
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September 3rd, 2010 at 2:21 pm
Probably.If you go into a section (can’t remember what it was) they have an entire room dedicated to stolen Chinese vases,jewelery etc. which were stolen during the Opium war.Isn’t the British empire just great?
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