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Nov 28 2007 12:00am EDT

Today in the Art World...

A criminal case accusing former Getty curator Marion True of willfully acquiring a looted gold funerary wreath from Greece has been dropped.

The Rothschild Fabergé egg fetched $16.5 million at Christie's London. Alexander Ivanov of the Russian National Museum bought the egg and intends to return it to Russia.

The six artists competing to display a work of art on the Fourth Plinth in London's Trafalgar Square (currently occupied by Thomas Schütte's Model for a Hotel 2007): Tracey Emin, Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor, Jeremy Deller, Yinka Shonibare, and Bob and Roberta Smith.

The art investment fund Xiling Group bought a Ming Dynasty jar at Christie's Hong Kong for $3.9 million, a record for a piece of porcelain from the era.

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