New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art returns 16 smuggled artefacts worth over Rs 9.8 crore to India

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art returns 16 smuggled artefacts worth over Rs 9.8 crore to India​

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New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art returns 16 smuggled artefacts worth over Rs 9.8 crore to India

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art returns 16 smuggled artefacts worth over Rs 9.8 crore to India

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met) in New York, which has faced intense criticism and legal scrutiny over some of its listed treasures, including at least 77 Indian artworks connected to imprisoned smuggler Subhash Kapoor, has announced that 16 of those items have been repatriated to India. These 16 antiquities were “illegally removed” which made their way to the New York Museum. 

“Last month, in light of new provenance information, we returned 16 works to India, including the Celestial Dancer, a sculpture that enraptured visitors for decades,” museum director Max Hollein mentioned in a statement issued earlier this month. The Celestial Dancer is an 11th-century sandstone sculpture of an Apsara from Madhya Pradesh valued at more than $1 million. The Met said that all the 16 antiquities were sold at one point by Subhash Kapoor.

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