Auction houses sued over proposed sale of Yuanmingyuan Artifacts

I just wrote a whole long thing on this subject and then WordPress decided to eat the post for lunch with a pickle and a nice shiraz.  So I’m giving you the link to the NYT article and leaving it at that except to say check out the nitwit quote at the end of the article in which a Sotheby’s executive suggests that if the Chinese really want their stuff repatriated they’re more than welcome to buy it back from Sotheby’s.

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