Dossier
Stone sculptures
Coverage of Stone sculptures in the Nexus archive.
- Fraudster who tried to sell fake 'Bronze Age' stone sculptures worth hundreds of thousands of pounds through Sotheby's sentenced over 'crude' replicas
A fraudster was sentenced for attempting to sell fake Bronze Age stone sculptures worth hundreds of thousands of pounds through Sotheby's auction house. The replicas were described as crude forgeries of valuable archaeological artifacts. The case highlights art fraud and authentication failures in the auction market.