Christie’s withdraws four Nepalese manuscript covers

Christie’s withdrew four painted wooden manuscript covers before a New York auction. Scholars matched them to an inventory of the National Archives in Kathmandu. One is the twelfth-century cover of a Shivadharmasangraha manuscript.
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