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mitch fifield chasing aphrodite chasing aphrodite the hunt for looted antiquities in the world s museums skip to content home excerpt summary photos cast the dealers cast the getty goddess returned sicily the chase the getty villa the objects the authors tag archives mitch fifield the end of the beginning nga returns kushan buddha and two kapoor objects posted on september 18 2016 6 comments on monday the national gallery of australia returned three more antiquities to india in light of evidence much of it first made public here that they had been stolen from temples or archaeological sites smuggled out of india and sold with false ownership histories by dealers now under criminal investigation in a ceremony in the canberra museum s asian gallery the australian arts minister mitch fifield handed over to his indian counterpart mahesh sharma two sculptures purchased from the disgraced manhattan antiquities dealer subhash kapoor who is currently standing trial in chennai india for his role as the alleged mastermind of an international smuggling ring a third sculpture a kushan era sculpture of the seated buddha purchased from manhattan antiquities dealer nancy wiener and once a centerpiece of the australian collection is being quietly returned out of the public eye we first revealed the sculpture s false ownership history in february 2015 and wrote about it in the australian with arts reporter michaela boland the three sculptures join the museum s dancing shiva an ardhanarishvara from the art gallery of new south wales and other objects returned in recent years the results of a looting controversy that has shaken australia s museums and raised far reaching questions about their collecting practices some 280 additional antiquities at the nga alone have been identified as having a clouded ownership history by an unprecedented provenance review that is on going the australian returns underscore the growing risks faced by museums and collectors who purchased asian antiquities in recent decades from what they believed to be respectable dealers and auction houses as we ve chronicled here since 2012 on going criminal investigations by authorities in the united states india pakistan cambodia thailand and beyond have slowly unraveled the transnational smuggling networks that supplied those dealers sources hint that the sweeping consequences of those investigations will soon become far clearer monday s australian returns therefore are best understood as the end of the beginning phase of those investigations not the end kushan buddha the kushan sculpture of a seated buddha was likely returned out of the public eye on monday because it no longer belongs to the museum in march 2015 the museum announced that it had returned it for a refund to nancy wiener the new york owner of the wiener gallery who sold the statue in 2007 for 1 08 million wiener in turn agreed to donate it to india at the time of the sale wiener said the sculpture had belonged to an englishman named ian donaldson who claimed to have purchased it while posted in hong kong between 1964 and 1966 she provided the museum with a 1985 certificate of ownership signed by donaldson it was the only record of sculpture s ownership history but the museum did not attempt to contact donaldson instead the nga obtained a search certificate from the art loss register saying the sculpture was not in its database of stolen objects as we ve noted in the past such declarations are largely useless for antiquities yet that was the extent of the due diligence the museum conducted i first raised questions about the buddha in 2012 after a source contacted me suggesting the statue s ownership history had been falsified the nga eventually released documents supporting that claim and belatedly contacted the expert who had first authenticated the sculpture donald stadtner stadtner raised further questions about the sculpture s origins claiming in an email to museum officials that british collector douglas latchford had boasted in a meeting that he had found nancy a provenance for a related kushan buddha that wiener sold to singapore s asian civilizations museum through his attorneys latchford has denied ever meeting stadtner the return of the nga s seated buddha will put increased pressure others to reveal the ownership history of similar objects singapore s asian civilizations museum has refused to disclose the provenance that wiener provided for a very similar sculpture of a seated buddha wiener has displayed images of a third kushan buddha on her gallery s website the current location of that buddha is not known wiener has not responded to repeated requests for comment in the past another similar buddha is on display at the carlos museum at emory university that seated buddha was acquired as a gift of the nathan rubin ida ladd family foundation which is known to have acquired objects from kapoor kapoor objects the two other objects returned monday are both from subhash kapoor and were linked to objects stolen from indian temples by researcher vijay kumar of the indian pride project in 2005 kapoor sold both objects to the nga for 1 5 million one was an 1800 year old limestone carving depicting a scene from the life of buddha kapoor told the museum the sculpture of the buddha s life had been in a private japanese collection until 1999 but in july we published this photo of the showing the unrestored sculpture as it appears in kapoor s archives soon after it was stolen by thieves the second kapoor object due to be returned in the ceremony monday was a 1000 year old stone goddess pratyangira or lion lady kapoor claimed the sculpture had been in the collection of his onetime girlfriend selina mohamed since 1990 but as we first reported in july 2016 photos and records found in kapoor s files show the pratyangira was in mumbai india in 2002 kumar has linked the object to vriddhachlam the same temple that the art gallery of new south wales shiva was taken from investigators believe kapoor obtained the two objects from a chennai art dealer named deena dayalan who has operated an art gallery there since 1965 and is suspected of being a major player in the theft and smuggling of antiquities from the region indian authorities raided dayalan s properties in july and seized substantial evidence that may have led to monday s returns share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on reddit opens in new window reddit email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print like loading 6 comments posted in news tagged asian civilizations museum deena dayalan kushan buddha mahesh sharma mitch fifield national gallery of australia selina mohamed subhash kapoor vijay kumar search the website search for tweets by chasingaphrodit buy the book available via amazon com barnes and noble powell s vromans indiebound recently 2 21 23 at the natural history museum of utah chasing shiva the hunt for looted south and southeast asia antiquities september 2 2023 updated usa vs one ancient mosaic a looted syrian masterpiece in los angeles may 26 2018 the sidon bull s head court record documents a journey through the illicit antiquities trade september 24 2017 hobby lobby s legal expert speaks i can t rule out they used my advice to evade the law july 10 2017 updated help wanted we re tracking down objects sold by nancy and doris wiener january 5 2017 updated manhattan dealer nancy wiener arrested criminal complaint alleges sweeping conspiracy to sell stolen asian art through major auction houses december 21 2016 updated inside the isis looting operation u s lawsuit reveals terror group s brutal bureaucracy of plunder december 15 2016 the end of the beginning nga returns kushan buddha and two kapoor objects september 18 2016 the missing link subhash kapoor s suppliers in india are finally getting rolled up july 3 2016 the lessons of palmyra iconoclasm in the era of clickbait april 7 2016 updated asia week arrest japanese dealer convicted of selling stolen art march 19 2016 asia week raids new details on the christie s seizures march 18 2016 busted asia week raids reveal scope of illicit trade in asian art march 17 2016 the crennan report the nga s ex post facto due diligence finds 22 questionable asian antiquities february 17 2016 operation antiquity prison for antiquities dealer behind looting and tax fraud scheme december 15 2015 ball state s kapoor return reveals new false provenance november 17 2015 the seated buddha goes home nancy wiener and national gallery of australia will return sculpture to india march 5 2015 the kushan buddhas nancy wiener douglas latchford and new questions about ancient buddhas february 1 2015 danti s inference the known unknowns of isis and antiquities looting november 18 2014 hecht s footprints haverford college opens up about source of their greek vases 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