With only one auction a year of Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian art (in March), Sotheby's honed in on the edacious global appetite for Himalayan art by curating this selling exhibition of Buddhist art during Asia Week.

But, whereas Egyptians summoned up the courage to topple a perduring Pharaoh and his edacious offspring, the British are cowards when it comes to cutting the Windsors down to size.