Dutch ready to give back seized colonial art - but to whom?

The spear rack of J.C. Baud, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, c. 1834, is displayed at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Netherlands October 10, 2020. Picture taken October 10, 2020. REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A cannon that once saluted a Sinhalese king and a diamond looted from an Indonesian sultan are among thousands of objects seized during the colonial era whose rightful owners Dutch authorities are intent on tracking down.

But establishing who those owners are can be complicated, the national Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam argues.