Between 5,000 to 12,000 smuggled objects from China reach art market each year

Posted on April 26, 2008
Filed Under Asia, consumer |

Source: Peter F. Watson and Cecilia Todeschini, The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities, (New York: PublicAffairs, 2006), pg. 30.

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