Sotheby’s Takes Greece to Court in Antiquities Test Case

Written By Ivy Prost
 

JAMES PICKFORD

5th June 2018

 
Sotheby’s is taking Greece’s ministry of culture to court over the ownership of an ancient Greek bronze horse, in a highly unusual legal attempt by the auction house “to clarify the rights of legitimate owners” amid a surge in spurious claims by countries of origin.
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