Blog Profile / Looting Matters
| URL : | http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Academics / Archaeology | |
| Posts on Regator: | 1270 | |
| Posts / Week: | 5.2 | |
| Archived Since: | October 4, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Images of the Bothmer fragments
In March LM noted that Christos Tsirogiannis had linked fragments of an Attic red-figured cup from the Bothmer bequest to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, to fragments in Rome attributed to the Euaion painter. It was not stated...Show More Summary
The Art Loss Register and Antiquities
One year ago LM posted a piece on the Art Loss Register and Christie's. I wonder if the ALR read it. The question is why the ALR did not appear to have spotted that Christie's was offering material identified from the Medici Dossier and the Becchina and Schinousa Archives. Show More Summary
Recently surfaced antiquities on the market
The results of the Christie's Rockefeller Centre sale are now available. Readers will know some of the items identified from the Becchina, Medici, and Schinousa archives by Cambridge University researcher Christos Tsirogiannis went under the hammer. Lot 540: Euboean black-figured amphora. Show More Summary
The Apollo from the Schinousa Archive
Apollo from the Schinousa photographic archive
Cambridge-based researcher, Christos Tsirogianns, has shared an image of a fragmentary marble Apollo with me. It had featured in the Schinousa archive. This photographic archive records the material that passed through the hands of a London-based dealer. Show More Summary
An East Greek Bronze Warrior from the Medici Dossier
Cambridge University researcher Christos Tsirogiannis has reminded me of some of the images from the Medici Dossier that have been published in Greece. One shows a series of small bronzes lined up on shelving, some with sale tags attached. Show More Summary
Ex-Kluge Collection on the market
Antiquities that formed part of the John Kluge collection are not without interest on LM. I see that three ex-Kluge pots are up for auction at Christie's Rockefeller Centre on June 6, 2013: lot 546: Attic black-figured column-krater, attributed to the Bucci painter. Show More Summary
A Gnathian Krater from the Swiss Art Market
Among the items presented for auction at Christie's Rockefeller Centre on June 6, 2013 is a Gnathian bell-krater (lot 600). Its collecting history ("provenance" [sic.]) is provided as "Art Market, Switzerland, 1994". My colleague, Cambridge...Show More Summary
Coins returned to Bulgaria
Source: ICE
ICE has announced the return of 546 ancient coins to Bulgaria ("Federal authorities return ancient coins to Bulgaria", May 21, 2013).
Bulgarian Ambassador Elena Poptodorova was quoted:
It is a special privilege to receive...Show More Summary
Two Canosan kraters returned to Italy
This time last year I was commenting on identifications made by Cambridge researcher Christos Tsirogiannis. He spotted that a pair of Canosan krater that were due to be auctioned in the June 2012 sale at Christie's Rockefeller Plaza could be identified from the polaroids in the Medici Dossier. The research did not go unnoticed. Show More Summary
Euboean amphora from the Borowski collection
One of the pieces to note in Christie's forthcoming sale in June is a Euboean black-figured amphora showing a seated woman and a sphinx (lot 540). The amphora first surfaced in an anonymous sale at Sotheby's (London) December 3, 1991, lot 383. Show More Summary
Dr Mona Ackerman and Robin Symes
Detail of Apollo. Source: the Schinoussa Archive
The Huffington Post has carried a feature on the sale of the art collection formed by Dr Mona Ackerman (Katherine Brooks, "Dr. Mona Ackerman Art Collection: Works By Pablo Picasso, Jean Arp And Egon Schiele Head To Christie's", April 12, 2013). Show More Summary
New York market and recently-surfaced antiquities
Fabio Isman has published an article noting how items identified from the Medici, Becchina and Symes photographic archives are surfacing in the New York Christie's auction this June ("La Grande Razzia è ancora tra noi, e Christie’s lo sa", Arte Magazine, May 2013). Show More Summary
Additional collecting histories for an Attic krater
It appears that further information can be added to the Athenian black-figured column-krater due to be auctioned at Christie's on June 6, 2013 (lot 546). The catalogue entry tells us: Art Market, Freiburg, 1988. with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 1990 (One Thousand Years of Ancient Greek Vases from Greece, Etruria & Southern Italy, no. Show More Summary
Due diligence and collecting histories
Collecting histories are important. They indicate the routes through the antiquities market. And the collecting histories for objects that have been returned to Italy as a result of the Medici Conspiracy are fascinating. So if, say,Show More Summary
"Convincing provenance" and the London market
Readers of LM will know that I keep emphasising the need for properly documented "collecting histories". It now appears that Egyptian antiquities, with what were termed "convincing provenances", had to be withdrawn from a sale at Christie's (London) earlier this month (Georgina Adam, "Apples - only $41.6m a bowl", Financial Times May 10, 2013). Show More Summary
The Wonderful World of Disney
This lecture will explore the background to the donation of the "Disney collection" to the University of Cambridge, and the establishment of the Disney chair of archaeology. It will place the benefaction of Thomas Brand Hollis to the Reverend John Disney in the context of religious dissent in the late eighteenth century. Show More Summary
Cambodian statues to be returned from New York
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has announced that it will be returning two statues to Cambodia ("Metropolitan Museum of Art to ReturnShow More Summary
Nostell Priory and Context Matters
Later this week I will be exploring the collecting history of an Attic black-glossed bolsal that formed part of the Nostell Priory collection inYorkshire. It probably formed part of an early 19th century collection in Italy. A study of the piece, with a companion in the British Museum, has reminded me of the importance of archaeological context. Show More Summary
Lee Rizzuto and the Getty
Among the objects to be appearing in the forthcoming exhibition exploring ancient Sicily at the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Cleveland Museum of Art is a terracotta given by Lee Rizzuto in 1979 (no. 119; inv. 79.AD.37). In the same year Rizzuto gave a silver and gold bracelet that apparently came from Turkey (inv. Show More Summary
Max Gerchik and Sicily
The image chosen to publicise the upcoming exhibition, "Sicily: Art and Invention Between Greece and Rome", at the Cleveland Museum of Art from September 2013 is a Sicilian terracotta head given to the J. Paul Getty Museum in 1976. The...Show More Summary