A sculpture that was part of the breaking provenance story back in 2013 – which led to the National Gallery of Australia (NGA)’s Asian Art Provenance Project – has been handed back to the Kingdom of Cambodia in a formal ceremony.
It, along with two other ninth to tenth century bronze sculptures, had been acquired into the NGA’s Asian Art Collection in 2011, at a cost of US$1.5 million (AU$2.3 in today’s figures), purchased from the late art dealer Douglas Latchford.
