Yep. Someone bought those ethically questionable Mesoamerican pieces sold at Bonhams.
Archaeological Institute of America St. Louis Society selling Meosamerican antiquities at auction
Posted on 27 October 2014
Does the sale of ‘clean’ antiquities encourage the black market? Ethical questions.
Ransoms and Repatriations: the Maori Motunui panels
Posted on 5 July 2014
Hidden in 1800s by Māori fleeing war, 5 carved panels were smuggled
The Power of Plausible Provenance
Posted on 28 April 2014
Presentation for the Society for American Archaeology
“Cursed” stela pulled from London auction over looting concerns
Posted on 3 April 2014
Bonham’s offers a stela owned by an Anonymous Swiss Collector, withdraws piece due to looting allegations.
The realities of auction catalogue analysis
Posted on 17 February 2014
Last year there was a big rumble-grumble about Sotheby’s Paris’ sale of a portion of the Barbier-Mueller collection of Pre-Columbian antiquities.
Conclusions: South American antiquities auctions and my academic past
Posted on 6 September 2013
My masters conclusion
So they sold that Barbier-Mueller stuff over the weekend
Posted on 25 March 2013
Sotheby’s finished up their Barbier-Mueller sale of pre-Columbian antiquities and it went, roughly, as expected.
The collection’s issues: Sotheby’s Paris Barbier-Mueller sale 2
Posted on 4 March 2013
In this post I want to talk a little bit about the (very) little that I know about the Barbier-Mueller collection.
The Sotheby’s sale of the Barbier-Mueller Collection: waxing and waning on Peruvian law.
Posted on 3 March 2013
Peru is attempting to recover 67-ish archaeological objects
Thoughts on Sotheby’s Paris’ Barbier-Mueller Collection sale, in three parts
Posted on 3 March 2013
I have been putting off posting about this subject but, as I am starting to receive emails about it
Other antiquities on the Cleveland Museum website!
Posted on 17 August 2012
Lately the interwebs have been abuzz with news of the Cleveland Museum acquiring a Roman portrait head and a Maya pot