# @phillipsauction on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BUIFfgLlVfU
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/12832868-phillipsauction-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2017-05-15T20:26:03.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Phillips (@phillipsauction) — https://gondola.cc/phillipsauction

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#GuestPost - Co-Head of #20thCentury & #ContemporaryArt Robert Manley joins our Instagram takeover! #AiWeiwei's 'Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, 2010', is one of the artist's most widely exhibited and collected works. Based on a group of sculptures that originally encircled the fountain-clock of the Old Summer Palace complex outside Beijing, they were looted in 1860 by British and French soldiers, under the Earl of Elgin — the son of the man who removed the "Elgin marbles" from Greece. Chinese collectors have recovered 7 of the animal heads, but 5 remain missing (dragon, dog, snake, sheep and rooster). Ai Weiwei has replicated the 7 known heads and imagined what the missing 5 would look like, thus recreating the stolen national treasure. Cast in gilded bronze on the artist’s huanghuali wood bases, the piece must be seen to be believed. #OnView at 450 Park Avenue, they look like treasure from another time -- posted by hobrobert from our #NewYork galleries.
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20th Century & Contemporary Art
Day Sale 17 May, 11AM / Evening Sale 18 May, 5PM
Join us at 450 Park Avenue, New York for our public viewing 5-18 May or preview the works on phillips.com. We’ll kick-off the sales starting Wednesday, 17 May at 11am with the Day Sale, followed by the Evening Sale on Thursday, 18 May at 5pm. See you in the saleroom or tune in online!

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20thcentury, guestpost, contemporaryart, onview, aiweiwei, newyork

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