A marble bust that a woman bought for about $35 from a Goodwill store is temporarily on display at a museum after experts determined it was a centuries-old sculpture missing from Germany since World War II.
A marble bust that a Texas woman bought for about $35 from a Goodwill store is temporarily on display at a San Antonio museum after experts determined it was a centuries-old sculpture missing from Germany since World War II.
The bust, which art collector Laura Young found at Goodwill in 2018, once belonged in the collection of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, according to the San Antonio Museum of Art, which is temporarily displaying the piece until it is returned to Germany next year. Young said there were a few months of “intense excitement” after learning the history behind the piece, which she found on the floor beneath a table at a Goodwill in Austin, Texas.
Photo of the bust, secured with a seatbelt in the passenger seat of her car, was shared on the museum's Facebook page. A yellow price sticker can be seen on the right cheek of the Roman artifact.
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