KUWAIT, Dec 19 (KUNA) -- Kuwait's First Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Sheikh Nasser Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah has given China's Poly Art Museum a rare antique out of his own personal collection.
The Chinese museum received the exquisite object, which is believed to date back to a turbulent era in Chinese history, circa 422 to 771 BC, amid a lavish ceremony on Wednesday, read a statement by the Kuwaiti embassy in Beijing.
The antique, which belongs to His Highness the Kuwaiti Amir's envoy, resembles a phoenix, which in Chinese mythology is a sacred bird that symbolizes resurrection, the statement revealed.
Meanwhile, it emphasized "recent progress" in Kuwait's ties with the world's most populous nation. (end) km.nam