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Provenancing at work in Indonesia/Sri Lanka returns

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In early July 2023, the Netherlands announced a large-scale return to Sri Lanka and Indonesia of state-owned objects from their national museums. To Indonesia, 478 cultural artefacts including the famed Lombok treasure, stolen as war booty in 1894 from a Balinese palace, will be handed over to the National Museum in Jakarta. To Sri Lanka, […]

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Cambodia Returns – March 2023

March 17, 2023 marked the return of hundreds of Khmer antiquities from public and private collections abroad. One month prior, a collection of Khmer gold and metal jewellery was brought from the UK to Cambodia, a highly publicized return shining an ever brighter spotlight on the illegal activities of art collector-dealer Douglas Latchford. An official