IFARreports

143 Chinese snuff bottles, Burghley House, Stamford, England; Picasso, Nude Before a Mirror Marie-Thérèse Walter), and Monet, Custom Officer's Cabin at Pourville, private collection, Brentwood, Calif.; Egyptian caryatid mirror and two other antiquities, in transit from Cleveland Museum of Art to exhibit in New York; Giovanni Francesco Caroto, The Martyrdom of St. Catherine, Picture Gallery of Christ Church, Oxford, England; Master of Mary of Burgundy manuscript, Berlin Kupferstichkabinett museum; Hugo Scheiber, Seated Man, among 21 avant-garde works stolen at knifepoint from New York owner's apartment; Il Correggio, Madonna and Child, and works by Velasquez, El Greco, and two Guardi works, Modena museum; pair of Ming Dynasty roof tiles, New York gallery; Jacob Isaac Meyer de Haan self-portrait, missing during shipment from Japan back to New York; Jean-Baptiste Oudry, The White Duck, among several 18th-century paintings stolen from Marquess of Cholmondeley home, England

Lucas Cranach the Elder, Portrait of Princess Sibylle van Cleve, and seven other 16th-century portraits by Cranach and his workshop, museum in Weimar, Germany, five arrests; Fernando Botero bronze sculpture, The Two Lovers, stolen from truck along with Dubuffet sculpture, also recovered; Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Bouquet of Anemones in a Green Vase, stolen from Wildenstein Gallery window, London; Thomas Gainsborough, Portrait of Madame Bacelli Dancing, Russborough House, Ireland; reliquary box of Henry I, part of Quedlinburg Treasures, Germany; Jean-Michel Basquiat,, No. 1, 1981, and Cy Twombly, Infinite Causes, stolen from New York gallery; John Inigo Richards, A View of Westminster Abbey from St. James's Park, stolen from private home; 26 of 127 American Indian artifacts, including Apache Indian Basketry Bowl, Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, one arrest; Aymara textiles from Bolivia; Marsden Hartley self-portrait, recovered with Picasso etching and Bierstadtstill life.

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Dimiter Michael Dimitroff, Robert and Pablo Alvarez get 18-month prison terms in smuggling of Rubens, stolen from museum in La Coruna, Spain.

360 of 527 old master drawings stolen during World War II from the Franz Koenigs collection in the Netherlands, are discovered in former Soviet Union.