Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970:
Cumulative facts and circumstances
Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above:
This work has a provenance established to 1990. The object filled a crucial gap in VMFA’s collection, which heretofore contained no protohistoric metalwork. It also significantly extended the chronology of VMFA’s presentation of South Asian art with a superb example of its type. VMFA decided to make an exception to the AAMD guidelines in order to bring this object into a free, publicly accessible, educational institution, where it could be studied, displayed, and publicized.