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A wire coat hanger in a 1,000 year old Chinese ceramic horse? The Asian Art Museum in San Francisco is moving to a new home and conservators are busy preparing the collection for the move. Some of it involves removing earlier restoration work, though actually the coat hanger is going to stay put since it is in good shape. The core of the collection, 13,000 works gifted to San Francisco by Avery Brundage, is the city’s second-most valuable asset (real estate is the first).

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