Showing posts with label Cambodia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cambodia. Show all posts
February 23, 2026

From Skanda Trust to Singapore: Tracing One Spunky Hanuman to Douglas Latchford

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If you read our recent article about the Dong Son bell identified at a museum in Assen and the troubling questions surrounding its provenanc...
February 21, 2026

When Provenance, Policy, and Limited Museum Due Diligence Rings Old (Alarm) Bells

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Few dates have shaped museum acquisition practice as profoundly as 1970. The adoption of the UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting a...
March 29, 2025

Justice for Cambodia: Manhattan D.A. Repatriates Looted Artifacts

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This week the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office announced the restitution of two two looted Cambodian sculptures , recovered as part of ...
February 8, 2024

Reclaimed Heritage: A Cambodian Buddha Goes Home

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Seized by Swiss authorities in the Canton of Basel 10 years ago, this 18th or19th century (Khmer empire) Buddha, seated in vajraparyankasana...
December 17, 2023

Lost Time, Found Art: The Decade-Long Pursuit of Restitution for Antiquities Smuggled by Douglas Latchford at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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In 2013 the Metropolitan Museum of Art restituted two,10th-century, Koh Ker stone statues, known as the “Kneeling Attendants” to Cambodia.  ...
July 21, 2021

A "Homeland" welcome for Neil Perry-Smith in New York

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  We are standing in front of a single-piece sand-stone sculpture of a serenely smiling cross-legged Shiva being worshipped by the small, du...
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January 31, 2021

Sometimes restitution is a little like putting lipstick on a pig

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Left: Steve Green and the Controversial Coptic Galatians fragment first offered on eBay in 2012 by Yakup Ekşioğlu. Right: Douglas Latchford ...