Sunday, August 18, 2019

Collector Surrenders Krishna Statue



An English collector has returned artefacts bought from NY gallery owner Subhash Kapoor.
India on August 15 regained possession of a priceless bronze Navaneetha Krishna, thanks to a rare instance of moral courage by an art collector from London. After U.S. authorities charged Indian antiquities dealer Subhash Kapoor with possession of stolen property last June, the London-based connoisseur, who had bought a few artefacts from him, came forward to U.S. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), expressing a desire to surrender the pieces. [...] The Krishna bronze is estimated to be from 17th Century from Tamil Nadu. 
It looks like, even though these is zero evidence this piece was actually stolen, as is the case with Robin Symes and his fellows, the heritage police are now going just as zealously to jump on anything that passed through Kapoor's hands.

This statue does not look very old to me.



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