A trader in London pulled an old Greek amphorra from selling after evidence of a notorious festival.
Kallos exhibition in Mayfair, London, removed the programming of black numbers-a jar with a hallway and a narrow neck made about 550bc-from selling yet observer Call her about the concerns raised by an illegal trade expert.
Dr. Christos Tzirujianis, an archaeologist and a prominent expert in the looted antiquities and the networks of traffick Italy.
Amvorah was discovered when the exhibition was offered to him last month at Tefaf Maastricht, one of the most prominent art and antiques exhibitions in the world, and its conformity with the Polaroid image appears to appear the same in the hands of Giacomo Medici, who was condemned in Italy in 2004 Stolen handicrafts. That image was part of an archive by the police and was on the Italian Carabinieri site.
The Dutch police were notified. The value of the object is believed to be about 50,000 pounds.
Kallos, ancient art, was established in 2014 by Baron Lorne Thyssen Cornemisza, son of the late Baron Hans Heinrich von Tysen BornimizaSwiss billionaire, who built what was considered the greatest artistic collection in special hands in the world.
Its height is 23.6 cm in height, ampdra is decorated with the horror of the horror, and the RAM and Lasad memory. This is attributed to the artist known only as the Phenus Painter, who was named after a cup of decoration with the legend of Venus, the blind king with which the guitars were afflicted and memorized. Jason and Argonauts.
This is the date of the collection presented by the exhibition on the Internet only to 1986. This raised the doubts of Tsirogiannis that the jar could have been part of the illegal excavation. He said: “These are instant red flags.”
He added that the details of the source included an exhibition that belonged to a merchant who condemned himself to receive stolen monuments from Italy in the 1970s.
Tsirogiannis, a Cambridge Archeology Lecturer, heads the illegal antiquities trafficking research on UNESCO’s chair on the threats of cultural heritage at the Ionian University in Corfu. The late Paulo Georgio Ferry, the Italian public prosecutor who followed and prosecuted the travelers in the traces of looting, gave Tserojianis the ability to reach tens of thousands of pictures and other archive materials seized in police raids from the travelers and other individuals participating in the illegal trade.
Over the course of 19 years, Tsirogiannis has identified more than 1700 loved ones, alert the police and plays a role in returning them to 15 countries. Discoveries include a horse of the ancient Greek bronze that would have been bound for New York to intend to analize in 2018 until Tsirogiannis informed the powers of its links British archaeologist Robin Sims. Greece claimed the horse as its national property, and in 2020, Sotheby lost its legal challenge, prompting the Greek Minister of Culture to welcome the court ruling as a victory for the countries that seek to restore its effects.
Last year, Christie withdrew the ancient Greek vases From the auction after Tsirogiannis discovered their link to another condemned archeology. He criticized the auction failure to reveal that things could be tracked to Gianfranco Bachina, who was convicted in 2011 to deal illegally in antiquities. Christie said at the time that she pulled the business as soon as she was aware of the call.
Tsirogiannis has identified many other medical things, which have been returned to Italy over the years. He said: “Midisi was receiving things that were looted from the graves in Italy,” adding that he believed that the amphorra came from the tombs of the Etriaa in Italy.
He has repeatedly argued that auction homes and merchants do not make sufficient checks with the Greek and Italian authorities, and criticized their failure to reveal the date of the whole collection of things.
“We are doing our best to give in due care and publish all the date of assembly and publishing known to us … the careful artwork concerned has been immediately removed from selling the suspended advice from these complex authorities,” said Madeleine Berridge, director of Calos Gallery.
