Honest dealers usually get sculptures from old
collections, which have pedigrees: they are legal. Sculptures from older
collections usually do have new noses, at least. For example, New
Iberia, LA, has the only full length lifesize
Hadrian in the USA; it stood as a landscape
architecture ornament in
England for a century. It came with the nose, certainly, but also some of the drapery edges,
restored. Some museums, such as the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen, have taken off most of the restorations on theirs, but doing so well is expensive. Seeing restorations on a
sculpture for sale may sometimes be a guarantee that it is not an illegal import.
Pat L.