Dear all, I am at Sotheby’s now. The official word of cancellation came in only a few minutes before the auction was slated to begin. It is currently officially only “postponed.”
Patricia Sauthoff 司徒 雛菊 Assistant Professor Department of History Hong Kong Baptist University ________________________________ From: Vanessa Sasson <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 6, 2025 7:49:29 PM To: Patricia SAUTHOFF <[email protected]>; Tieken, H.J.H. (Herman) <[email protected]>; Indology List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: auction Piprahwa gems CAUTION! EXTERNAL EMAIL (not being sent from @hkbu email system): Do not click links, open attachments, or respond to it unless you trust the email source/verify the identity of the sender by other means. Dear colleagues, The BBC also did a piece on the auction this morning: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7vn24j3v2jo John Strong (who is cited in the Guardian piece) wrote a wonderful chapter about these jewels/relics that some of you might be interested in: see his chapter, "Beads and Bones: The Case of the Piprahwa Relics," in Jewels, Jewelry and Other Shiny Things in the Buddhist Imaginary, ed. Vanessa R. Sasson (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2021), 185-207. Cheers, Vanessa R. Sasson Religious Studies Marianopolis College ________________________________ From: INDOLOGY <[email protected]> on behalf of Patricia SAUTHOFF <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 6, 2025 6:08:20 AM To: Tieken, H.J.H. (Herman); Indology List Subject: [BULK] Re: [INDOLOGY] auction Piprahwa gems Dear Herman, Thank you for sharing this update. The auction is still at this time scheduled according to Sotheby's. I plan to attend tomorrow if the action goes ahead. https://www.sothebys.com/buy/2320479f-3f71-4a30-904d-268b0c40cfdc/lots/7e2a9c38-e1f0-4bb2-bde7-82452dc0bd37 Patricia Sauthoff 司徒 雛菊 Assistant Professor Department of History Hong Kong Baptist University ________________________________ From: INDOLOGY <[email protected]> on behalf of Tieken, H.J.H. (Herman) via INDOLOGY <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 6, 2025 5:26:45 PM To: Indology List <[email protected]> Subject: [INDOLOGY] auction Piprahwa gems CAUTION! EXTERNAL EMAIL (not being sent from @hkbu email system): Do not click links, open attachments, or respond to it unless you trust the email source/verify the identity of the sender by other means. Dear List members, In todays Guardian the above article on the auction of the Piprahwa gems appeared. The action is planned for 7 May. I am not sure if the link works. But the Guardian can be freely read on the internet. Herman https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/05/india-tries-to-halt-auction-of-piprahwa-gems-found-with-buddhas-remains Herman Tieken 's-Herenstraat 66 3155 SL Maasland The Netherlands 00 31 (0)10 7617502 00 (0)6 14652798 website: hermantieken.com<http://hermantieken.com/> The Aśoka Inscriptions: Analysing a corpus, New Delhi: Primus Books, 2023. https://primusbooks.com/ancient/the-asoka-inscriptions-analysing-a-corpus-by-herman-tieken/ ________________________________ [Baptist University Logo] Disclaimer This message (including any attachments) may contain confidential information intended for a specific individual and/or purpose. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this message and notify the sender and the University immediately. Any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message, or the taking of any action based on it, is prohibited as it may be unlawful. In addition, the University specifically denies any responsibility for the accuracy or quality of information obtained through University E-mail Facilities. Any views and opinions expressed in the email(s) are those of the author(s), and do not necessarily represent the views and opinions of the University. The University accepts no liability whatsoever for any losses or damages that may be incurred or caused to any party as a result of the use of such information. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Disclaimer This message (including any attachments) may contain confidential information intended for a specific individual and/or purpose. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this message and notify the sender and the University immediately. Any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message, or the taking of any action based on it, is prohibited as it may be unlawful. In addition, the University specifically denies any responsibility for the accuracy or quality of information obtained through University E-mail Facilities. Any views and opinions expressed in the email(s) are those of the author(s), and do not necessarily represent the views and opinions of the University. The University accepts no liability whatsoever for any losses or damages that may be incurred or caused to any party as a result of the use of such information.
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