A German museum has issued a warning that eight statues in its crowd-pulling exhibition on China’s legendary “Terracotta Army” may be fake after an art dealer instigated a police probe into their provenance.
“The exhibition continues but we have put up three notices at the entrance warning visitors that the pieces may not be authentic,” a spokeswoman for the Hamburg Museum of Ethnology, Marina Lifschitz, said this week….[Full Text]
(Image: The leader of an cleans the head of a terracotta warrior sculpture, in Hamburg, via AFP)