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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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Ste. 102 625 Rowcliffe
Kelowna BC
V1Y 5Y8
250 712-1698
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