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ARSAW.—Priceless art treasures which Count Andrew Potocki tried to smuggle from Poland are being shown to the public for the first time. Before the war these Potocki trea sures were inaccessible to the public and even to scientists and historians. Count Potocki, one of Poland's lead ing pre-war landed families and Countess Maria Potocki, were arrested recently, just as they had got 42 cases of treasures ready to smuggle from two Potocki palaces and one Potocki castle out of Poland via a secret frontier route. Potocki agents had begun to move the first cases when Security author ities arrested them. The Potockis will be tried, because under both pre-war and postwar Polish laws, it is a cri minal offence to rob the nation of cultural assets.” The collection includes 16th cen tury Italian paintings, Dutch and Italian paintings of the 17th and 18th centuries, ceramics, ancient glass vases, silver, tapestries and manu scripts There were also regimental flags and chinaware belonging to the old Polish kings and church vestments embroidered with many genuine pearls. The Potocki collection is said to be so “enormously valuable” that it is impossible to assess fit at the moment. It is now being displayed in War saw's National Museum.
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Hobart Tribune
Hobart, Tasmania, AU
Fri, Jan 03, 1947
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