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Further hostilities broke out in the Second Opium War of 1856-58 when combined British and French forces again inflicted military defeats on China and demanded further concessions on trade.

Experts at the time said the 1740 Qing dynasty vase had been looted by British and French soldiers from the Summer Palace in Peking during the Second Opium War occupied by Emperor Xianfeng.

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