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Tarnished Treasures: Provenance and the UK’s Waverley Criteria

Data publikacji: 30.12.2019

Santander Art and Culture Law Review, 2019, 2/2019 (5), s. 109 - 134

https://doi.org/10.4467/2450050XSNR.19.016.11564

Autorzy

Charlotte Woodhead
Warwick Law School, University of Warwick
Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom, Wielka Brytania
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7962-6089 Orcid
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Tytuły

Tarnished Treasures: Provenance and the UK’s Waverley Criteria

Abstrakt

The United Kingdom (UK), like other countries, has made strong commitments to tackling the illicit trade in objects and those that were taken during the Nazi Era. Yet, admitting objects with such questionable provenance into the category of UK national treasures and attempting to keep them in the UK by seeking institutional support to make them available to the public would be at odds with these worthy policies. The main analysis in this paper is focused on the issues raised by the 2017 decision in the UK to designate as a national treasure a Meissen figure that was formerly owned by Emma Budge, whose heirs lost possession of her collection  during the Nazi Era in a forced sale. Using the trope of “tarnished treasures” this paper argues that admitting objects with tainted provenance into the category of national treasures tarnishes the entire category of national treasures. Recognizing the need to retain the integrity of this special category, this paper sets out ways in which the UK export licensing process can more fully take into account provenance before admitting tainted cultural objects into the canon of national treasures, and thus avoiding tarnishing the entire category.

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Informacje: Santander Art and Culture Law Review, 2019, 2/2019 (5), s. 109 - 134

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Tarnished Treasures: Provenance and the UK’s Waverley Criteria

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Tarnished Treasures: Provenance and the UK’s Waverley Criteria

Autorzy

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7962-6089

Charlotte Woodhead
Warwick Law School, University of Warwick
Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom, Wielka Brytania
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7962-6089 Orcid
Wszystkie publikacje autora →

Warwick Law School, University of Warwick
Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom, Wielka Brytania

Publikacja: 30.12.2019

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