Germany’s fake terracotta warriors – seems even the museums get duped sometimes – Arts & Entertainment
www.antique-chinese-furniture.com — More than 10,000 visitors to an exhibition of terracotta warriors in Hamburg are to be offered refunds after organizers admitted the figures on display are fake. Germany’s art world was stunned by the scandal, which came to light when officials from Xian, the home of the 2,000-year-old clay army, said they were unaware that they had lent any of their figures to Germany and that those on display at Hamburg’s Museum of Ethnology could not possibly be real as the originals were all elsewhere.
Wouldn't it be funny if this turned out to be the work of the Chinese in order to get back at that German student who jumped into Pit 1 a couple years ago? Guards had a hard time finding him because he was dressed like a Terracotta Warrior and was standing completely still among their ranks.
Actually I don't see the point of shipping priceless antiques around, if you can make almost "identical" copies of them to display. 99,9% of the visitors couldn't tell the difference anyways.
yea, but actually in this case the originals look quite different then the copies. I amazed that they were not able to instantly see the difference.