Taleju Temple, Kathmandu

The Taleju Temple once contained the Taleju Necklace, a 17th-century Nepali ceremonial collar now in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, where it is known as the Necklace Inscribed with the Name of King Pratapamalladeva.^[5] In 1970, Nepalese authorities transferred several treasures from the temple, including the necklace, to the Hanuman Dhoka Palace Museum in Kathmandu for safekeeping.^[6] By 1976 the necklace had left Nepal and appeared in the United States, where it was sold by a Californian art dealer to the Alsdorf Foundation, a Chicago-based private collection.^[7] The necklace later entered the Art Institute of Chicago, where it has been exhibited ever since. Because of its association with the Taleju Temple, scholars and campaigners in Nepal have sought the necklace’s return.^[8] Media reports have raised the possibility that Nepal’s royal family was responsible for its sale.^[8]

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