This is my first posting to the list, although I have been a subscriber on
and off for a few years.  This is a question I am posting to the group at
large because my experience is still minimal.

I am finishing up the last bits of an extended co-op term with a small
museum in the British Columbia interior.  In this museum, we have two
ceramic artifacts on display that are said to be a vase(pieced togethor)
from archaic Greece and Archaic style Etruscan tomb statue (although the
label simply says archaic and gives dates of 650-500BC for it).  Although I
thought they were rather messy examples, I was told that they were genuine.

Recently, I was reading False Impression, the book about art forgeries
where I discovered that the archaic  is one of the most widely faked styles
in the antiquities world, from Roman times on.  When I checked into it
further, I found that the provenience from the British dealer was very
vague (i.e. the vase and the tomb statuary had been found in archaeological
sites from a vague area, at least a "100 years ago".  When I asked more
about them, I was rather angrily told that they genuine, and that our
conservator had a masters in this kind of thing.

The thing is it still bothers me, espiecially since I now have awful
suspicions.  I was wondering if there are any other ways I can figure this
out, with out attracting the ire of my senior co-workers.

Thank you for any advice.
Katrina



Katrina Guy
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