An act of commercial sabotage at a Christie's auction:
The Tale of the Auctioned Chinese Bronzes continued Monday with a bizarre twist. (The two sculptures – a rat’s head and a rabbit’s head looted from Beijing in 1860 by British and French troops – were sold last week by Christie’s in Paris amid strong protest from the Chinese government. Read the Monitor’s previous coverage here and here.)
Five days after the auction, the anonymous winning bidder revealed himself to be a Chinese national – and refused to pay the $36 million pledged.
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