I am so tired of hearing this demagoguery of Westerners looting foreign art!
In this particular case it was an antiquities dealer who bought these statues in Thailand about 50 years ago! So definitely no looting! He paid actually what appears to be a handsome price for these objects. Then he sold it to Western museums.
Well, had this antiquity dealer not saved these statues who knows whether these statutes would still exist or had been damaged!
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