Ownership without authority is the definition of stolen, museums don’t use the word ‘stolen’. They call it “disputed provenance”, when forced to acknowledge it.
Also BBC didn’t seem too concerned about using the word ‘stolen’ for a story about a different museum returning artefacts, even though the NGA’s media release also doesn’t use the word.
Ownership without authority is the definition of stolen, museums don’t use the word ‘stolen’. They call it “disputed provenance”, when forced to acknowledge it.
Also BBC didn’t seem too concerned about using the word ‘stolen’ for a story about a different museum returning artefacts, even though the NGA’s media release also doesn’t use the word.
I think BBC might be just a little conservative at the moment about this language though, given the British Museum’s recent internal thefts.