MEDIA ADVISORY - ICE returns stolen 18th –century Chinese sculpture to Harvard Art Museums

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Media Advisory

ICE returns stolen 18th –century Chinese sculpture to Harvard Art Museums

 

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Boston — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will transfer an 18th-century Chinese Jadeite Tripod Covered Censer to the Harvard Art Museums at a ceremony on Tuesday, January 21st. The work of art disappeared from its display case at the Fogg Museum in 1979. In 2009 the censer reappeared in Hong Kong when it was listed for auction by fine art auctioneer Sotheby’s.

At the transfer ceremony on Tuesday, January 21st, 2014, ICE officials, representatives of the museums and the U.S. Attorney’s office will formally commemorate the censor’s safe return to the Harvard Art Museums.

 

 

WHEN:          Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014 – 11 a.m. ET

 

WHO:

  • U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Special Agent in Charge Bruce Foucart
  • Assistant U.S. Veronica Lei, District of Massachusetts
  • Thomas W. Lentz, Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard Art Museums

 

WHERE:        Harvard University

Hoffman Lounge (fourth floor)
20 Oxford St.
Cambridge, MA

 

LOGISTICAL INFORMATION: Pre-set will begin at 10:15 a.m. EDT. Metered parking is available on Oxford Street. Additional parking is located under the Smith Campus Center, 1350 Massachusetts Ave.

 

Please RSVP to Daniel Modricker at Daniel.Modricker@ice.dhs.gov (617-935-5331) or Christina DiIorio-Sterling at usamamedia@usdoj.gov (617-748-3356)

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