The Library
Tarnished treasures : provenance and the UK’s Waverley criteria
Tools
Tools
Tools
Woodhead, Charlotte (2019) Tarnished treasures : provenance and the UK’s Waverley criteria. Santander Art and Culture Law Review, 2 (5). pp. 109-134. doi:10.4467/2450050XSNR.19.016.11564
|
PDF
WRAP-tarnished-treasures-provenance-UK-waverley-criteria-Woodhead-2019.pdf - Published Version - Requires a PDF viewer. Available under License Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives 4.0. Download (321Kb) | Preview |
|
![[img]](http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png) |
PDF
WRAP-Tarnished-treasures-provenance-Waverley-criteria-Woodhead-2019.pdf - Accepted Version Embargoed item. Restricted access to Repository staff only - Requires a PDF viewer. Download (626Kb) |
Official URL: https://doi.org/10.4467/2450050XSNR.19.016.11564
Abstract
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.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Subjects: | C Auxiliary Sciences of History > CC Archaeology K Law [Moys] > KN Common Law, Private Law |
||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Cultural property, Cultural property -- Protection, Cultural property -- Protection -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain, Law and art , Export controls -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Santander Art and Culture Law Review | ||||||||
| Publisher: | University of Opole | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 2391-7997 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | December 2019 | ||||||||
| Dates: |
|
||||||||
| Volume: | 2 | ||||||||
| Number: | 5 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 109-134 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.4467/2450050XSNR.19.016.11564 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | ||||||||
| Related URLs: |
Request changes or add full text files to a record
Repository staff actions (login required)
 |
View Item |
