Law, crime and regulation

The British Museum has recovered a further tranche of stolen and missing objects from its collection.

Two valuable Bronze Age gold artefacts have been stolen from Ely Museum in Cambridgeshire.

Lone thief took several high-value items of jewellery

Christie’s has been the victim of an apparent cyberattack that has brought down its website.

Another 10 antiquities from Egypt are being returned to the country following an intervention by the Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L Bragg Jr.

Artwork and gold seized from a “prolific money launderer” as part of a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation are to be sold.

An 18th century bracket clock by the English clockmaker Thomas Hunter Jr (c.1760-70) has been recovered after being stolen 23 years ago.

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of a ram-raid break-in at Derbyshire saleroom Hansons.

The J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles is to return a bronze head from its antiquities collection to Turkey.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned a sculpture to Iraq following provenance research.

A painting by French Impressionist painter Eva Gonzalès has been acquired by The National Gallery via a private treaty sale from a British collection for a “tax-advantageous price” of £1.49m.

Delegates attending the latest Goldsmiths’ Company London Assay Office seminar on April 12 were warned to be alert for faked objects purporting to be by the preeminent 18th century Huguenot silversmith Paul de Lamerie (1688-1751).

A painting belonging to a Jewish family who were forced to flea Germany under the Nazi’s has been returned to the family’s remaining heir with the help of The Art Loss Register.

Two thugs armed with hammers targeted Bourbon Hanby Antiques Arcade and smashed cabinets and attacked three people.

A self-portrait by artist George Frederic Watts (1817-1904) has been acquired by Watts Gallery in Compton, near Guildford.

A change to Artist's Resale Right in the UK means the levy will now be calculated in pounds rather than euros.