French couple lose court case over rare African mask worth millions

Couple sold mask to dealer for 150 in 2021 before it was sold to unidentified buyer for 4.2m

A French couple who sold an extremely rare" African mask for 150 only to discover it was worth millions have had a request to cancel the artefact's sale thrown out in court.

The couple, in their 80s, sold the wooden mask in September 2021 to a secondhand goods dealer as part of the sale of a number of antiquities including African artefacts that they had kept in their secondary home in southern France.