This bronze chariot and horse (duplicate) was bestowed to the Macao Museum by Li Keqiang, the current Premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China, when he was visiting Macao in October 2016. The replica is half the size of the original, which was made in around 210 BCE and was unearthed in 1980 from the mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin in Lintong, Shanxi province.

The tomb of the First Emperor Qin is located at Lishan, which is to the east of Xi’an city, Shanxi province. It took from 247 to 208 BCE, a total of thirty-nine years to build this grave whose height is 76 meters. This bronze chariot and horse was made by Qin-dynasty bronze smiths. They succeeded in utilizing the many techniques such as casting, welding, mounting and jointing to combine the chariot and the horse as a single piece of art work. In the 20th-century archaeological history, it is the most complicated in structure and the largest in size among the many ancient bronze wares discovered, and is therefore named the “Crown of Bronze Wares”.