Word: diptych
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cleveland Museum of Art is a little ivory panel (10 in. x 12 in.) carved with the story of the sufferings of Jesus. Because it is divided into two sections it is called a diptych. The Museum bought it last year from Manhattan Dealer Demotte and, delighted, published a brochure stating that this diptych was made in the 11th Century at Liege, said it was the most valuable diptych in the U. S., that it cost...
Sometime after the sale, a Viennese dealer called upon Dealer Demotte, told him of a diptych he had seen in the treasury of Zagreb Cathedral in Jugoslavia...
...charming, he declared, and could be bought for $20,000. Dealer Demotte laughed, said that he had already bought that diptych, paid only $10,000. The bewildered Viennese returned to Europe, went to Zagreb, investigated. He found that a copy had recently been substituted for the original...
Last month Leonida Pitamitz, Jugoslav Minister to the U. S., made a delicate call upon Frederic Allen Whiting, secretary of the Cleveland Museum. Politely he informed Director Whiting that the diptych in the museum was stolen-goods, that it belonged to the Zagreb Cathedral. Director Whiting removed the diptych to a safe deposit vault, awaited developments...
Last week Minister Pitamitz sped by motor from Washington to Cleveland. There the Museum authorities received him with great formality. Ceremoniously they gave the diptych back to Jugoslavia...