Dr. Stanley Ho with the Bronze. Credit: Virgile Simon Bertrand. © Sotheby's Images

HONG KONG.-Sotheby's Hong Kong is pleased to announce that Dr. Stanley Ho, Standing Committee Member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, has decided to donate the Bronze Horse Head of Haiyantang in the Yuanmingyuan (or Summer Palace) to China upon his purchase of the piece in a sale brokered by Sotheby’s for HK$69.1 million (£4.42 million, US$8.84 million). The Bronze was originally scheduled to be auctioned in Hong Kong in October, but given Dr. Ho’s good intentions to donate this rare and magnificent Chinese imperial piece to China, the Bronze was sold to Dr. Ho under an agreement with the consignor through Sotheby’s Hong Kong. The purchase has set a world record price for any Chinese Qing sculpture. Lire la suite http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=21764

Bronze Horse Head of Haiyantang in the Yuanmingyuan (or Summer Palace). © Sotheby's Images.