‘Private Collector’ To 28 Return Latchford Sourced Artifacts
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Five ‘Latchford’ Statues In Transit To Cambodia
Phnom Penh: n the evening of September 29, 2021, the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts issued a notification on the return of lost Cambodian artifacts back to the Kingdom…
Looted Latchford Statues To Be Returned To Cambodia
Five ancient Khmer statues dating back to the 6th century will be sent back from the United States to the Kingdom of Cambodia. They are due to arrive on September…
Khmer Art Expert Douglas Latchford Dies In Bangkok
Bangkok: Douglas Latchford, a leading expert and dealer in Khmer and Indian antiquities, has died in Bangkok at the age of 89. Born to British parents in then Bombay, Latchford…
Denver Art Museum Gives Up Looted Cambodian Antiquities
The United States government has entered the fray of an international art scandal relating to four Cambodian antiquities that federal prosecutors say were looted and sold to the Denver Art Museum, where…
British Art Restorer Arrested For Role In $143 Million Asian Antiquities Smuggling Ring
The Manhattan district attorney’s office has taken a key next step in prosecuting the $143 million Asian antiquities smuggling ring led by disgraced dealer Subhash Kapoor with the arraignment yesterday of…
‘Skanda On A Peacock’ Will Be Returned
Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the filing of a civil complaint seeking forfeiture of a 10th Century Khmer sandstone statue – Skanda…
This Week In Cambodian History- May 28-June 3
On May 28, 1946, the ‘Franco-Siamese incident’- negotiations over the return of Battambang province (then much larger- about 1/5 of Cambodia) which had been seized by Thailand (in 1941) broke…
Cambodia’s Khmer Heritage Is Finally Returning Home
Collector Douglas Latchford’s daughter has turned over his entire collection—as well as records that could lead to further recoveries from US institutions The restitution of Douglas Latchford’s Khmer art collection…
US Charges Expert With Trafficking Khmer Artifacts
Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Peter C. Fitzhugh, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of…
