Table 1 Images and brief contextual description of selected stone carved works studied at the Historical Museum of Crete and the conservation laboratory of the Heraklion Ephorate of Antiquities Object no Image Description Stone inscriptions and reliefs from the Historical museum of Crete AI86 Venetian stone inscription, seventeenth c.
From an exhibition on display in the British Museum's Permanent and Non-Returnable Collection of American Antiquities and Near-Antiquities: Object 1-A: Rawlings baseball glove, circa 1959.
By Ian Frazier From an exhibition on display in the British Museum's Permanent and Non-Returnable Collection of American Antiquities and Near-Antiquities: Object 1-A: Rawlings baseball glove, circa 1959.
Illicit antiquities, archaeological objects that have been illegally excavated or exported from their country of origin for monetary gain.
The U.S. Tariff Act of 1930 exempted from duty specified antiquities and objects of art produced prior to 1830, and that year became more or less internationally accepted as an appropriate terminal date in defining "antique".
For sale will be some $30 million worth of paintings by Picasso and Warhol along with furniture, antiquities and decorative objects.
I thought that some sort of formula where reciprocity and exchange could be arranged would be successful for both sides and not deprive the American museums altogether of antiquities when the objects were returned to Italy.
From the mid-1950s, when I began to attend auctions, through the mid-1970s, bidders who went in for small Medieval objects, antiquities and the rest did so because they wanted to live with them, not because they looked for tokens of social status or clever investments.
For the first time in history the public is being welcomed to the palace, the occasion an exhibition, "Palazzo Farnese", which runs until April 27th.Most of the world-famous Farnese collection of paintings, monumental statues from antiquity and other objects are displayed in museums in Naples.
Furniture, decorative objects and antiquities were also getting lavish attention at this year's fair.
In the acquisition documents, Atlantis Antiquities declared that the objects had been acquired in Geneva in 1985, and legally exported; no mention was made of Medici.
