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Kampuchea Chef The Latchford Collection – Top Ten Re-visited: After four months Thursday, November 9, 2023
The Latchford Collection – Top Ten Re-visited:
After four months, I have finished posting a series of photographs, sent to me by a Facebook reader, which were taken in the plush Mayfair-London home of Douglas Latchford in 2014 and 2015. I have identified more than forty stone and bronze Khmer artworks, plus many pieces of jewelry, all of which were kept in virtual secrecy by Latchford in his personal collection. However, this private hoard of antiquities was fluid, as he sold some pieces and added others over time. He also maintained a similar collection of antiques at his home in Bangkok too. That is of course, separate from the thousands of Khmer works of art that he received from looters decimating the cultural heritage of sacred Khmer temples, which he then arranged to be trafficked all over the world to private collectors, museums, galleries and auction houses. He did this for decades, masquerading as a respectable collector-cum-scholar, writing glossy scholarly books with Emma Bunker or donating the odd artifact to museums and governments to maintain his philanthropic and benevolent veneer. Meanwhile, Latchford made millions of dollars from his nefarious activities, which he kept hidden from prying eyes in secret offshore trust accounts, and managed to evade justice for sixty years until his indictment on a series of charges in 2019, a year before his death.
These previously unseen photographs of Latchford’s personal collection of antiquities are a window into his world. They give you a flavour of his personal preferences when it came to Khmer art. This is my own selection of the Top Ten Khmer artworks from the Latchford collection, in preference order. One of these pieces has already found its way back to Cambodia, as a result of the promise by Latchford’s daughter to repatriate those Khmer pieces still in the family’s possession. The whereabouts of the remainder aren’t yet publicly known, but they too may be on their way back to Cambodia as the Latchford family fulfill their commitment. However, the possibility remains that some of these treasures may never be seen again.Credit by: Mr Andy Brouwer 
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