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A visitor walks over the Sotheby's logo as he enters a convention centre where a Sotheby's sale will be held in Hong Kong on April 2, 2010.
Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012

Open quoteEvery red flag on the planet should have gone off when this was offered for sale.Close quote

  • HERBERT V. LARSON JR.,
  • a New Orleans lawyer and antiquities expert, on a 1,000-year-old Khmer statue of a mythic warrior that sits in limbo at Sotheby's in New York City because some believe it was looted
Photo: MIKE CLARKE / AFP / Getty Images | Source: New York Times