Who is going to trust Northampton Council now?" added Fleming. "While I have great sympathy for local authorities that find themselves in financial difficulty, the public has a right to expect that local authorities will behave in an ethical manner, that shows they can be trusted with public assets not that they will seek short-term gain at the expense of long-term damage to a community's cultural richness. The MA could now review the museum service's membership. "Northampton Borough Council will now have to see what the consequences are of selling this object in what it has been very clearly warned by several bodies is an unethical manner," said David Fleming, the chair of the MA's ethics committee. The 4,500-year-old, painted limestone Sekhemka sculpture was sold to a buyer on the phone in a packed saleroom at Christie's in London last night for £15.8m. The sale of an ancient Egyptian statue from the collection of Northampton Museum and Art Gallery at auction has been condemned by the Museums Association (MA) and Arts Council England (ACE).
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