This is the biography of a set of rare Buddhist statues from China. Their extraordinary adventures take them from the Buddhist temples of fifteenth-century Putuo – China's most important pilgrimage island – to their seizure by a British soldier in the First Opium War in the early 1840s; and on to a starring role in the Great Exhibition of 1851. In the 1850s; they moved in and out of dealers' and antiquarian collections; arriving in 1867 at Liverpool Museum. Here they were re-conceptualized as specimens of the 'Mongolian race' and; later; as examples of Oriental art. The statues escaped the bombing of the Museum during the Second World War and lived out their existence for the next sixty years; dismembered; corroding and neglected in the stores; their histories lost and origins unknown. As the curator of Asian collections at Liverpool Museum; the author became fascinated by these bronzes; and selected them for display in the Buddhism section of the World Cultures gallery. In 2005; quite by chance; the discovery of a lithograph of the figures on prominent display in the Great Exhibition enabled the remarkable lives of these statues to be reconstructed.
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