Heritage piece to go under hammer in US
A heritage sewing machine stand from the city will go under the hammer in the US on September 15. The reserve price of the item has been fixed at Rs 1.25 lakh and it is expected to fetch Rs 2.51 lakh.
The auction of the artefact, designed by Pierre Jeanneret, a Swiss architect, will be conducted by an auction house, Barton, in Pennsylvania on September 15, said Ajay Jagga, a member of the Heritage Items Protection Cell of the Chandigarh Administration.
Jagga, in a letter to Union External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Culture and Tourism Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, has stated that the auction was not in tune with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of ‘Viksit Bhi, Virasat Bhi’.
He has stated that in response to his earlier representations on the same topic, the Ministry of Culture took action and asked the agencies such as the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to look into the matter. However, the Ministry of External Affairs is yet to take cognisance of this matter and some remedial measures, he adds.
Jagga says he was again intimating in advance regarding the auction of the article from Chandigarh in Pennsylvania, US.
Jagga requested that the Indian Embassies in foreign countries must be sensitised to the heritage of the country, so that wherever information comes to them, they can, at least, raise objection, which may sustain or not, to save the heritage.
