The marble angels had been stolen from an Italian church in 1989. French art police flagged them as stolen goods after an unnamed art collector tried to sell them in Avignon, France.
Two marble statues of angels are seen in this undated image. A British art collector who bought a pair of 17th century marble angels from a Neapolitan antiques shop two decades ago and had them at his French home has returned the “putti” to Italy’s art police after learning that they had been stolen from a church.
A British art collector who bought a pair of 17th-century marble angels from a Neapolitan antique shop two decades ago has returned the winged “putti” to Italy’s art police after learning that they had been stolen from a church. Italy’s carabinieri art police said the unnamed collector had tried to resell the angels at an antique shop in Avignon, France, before his planned move from France to Portugal when French art police flagged them as possible stolen goods.
Italy’s art police said Tuesday that the angels, decorated with a strategically placed vine of leaves and fruit, had been stolen from the St. Sebastian church in Guardia Sanframondi, northeast of Naples, on Dec. 13, 1989. Police said the collector was ignorant of the angels’ origin and offered to return them without any legal fight.
The police noted that another set of angels, similarly reported as stolen in the carabinieri's database, was recently returned to another Guardia Sanframondi church after they were located in a Milan antique shop and recognized by the church pastor.
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