Sentence examples for clear provenance from inspiring English sources

We take rigorous care to ensure that we only sell items that have a clear provenance".

But, she said, she did so only after Sotheby's officials assured her they had clear provenance on the statue.

This drawing had no clear provenance — a trail of invoices, catalogue listings, or other records that can allow a work to be traced back to an artist.

Dealers and auction houses often point out that many pieces without clear provenance are still perfectly legitimate, having been purchased by collectors before countries began restricting the trade.

In a significant shift, the Getty Museum in Los Angeles announced in 1995 that it would stop buying antiquities that did not have a clear provenance.

You would think such an indelible piece of screen history would have a clear provenance, but that is not the case.

But this one had a clearer provenance.

The remaining M lineages detected in Saudi Arabs had a clear Indian provenance.

We analyzed the complete mitochondrial cytochrome b gene of 126 samples using feces from wild individuals and material from zoo and museum specimens with clear geographical provenance, including several type specimens.

The results showed that the Arabian Peninsula has received substantial gene flow from Africa (20%), detected by the presence of L, M1 and U6 lineages; that an 18% of the Arabian Peninsula lineages have a clear eastern provenance, mainly represented by U lineages; but also by Indian M lineages and rare M links with Central Asia, Indonesia and even Australia.

Heather Jenkins, Waitrose agriculture director, said: "What we ate in 2013 was shaped by a clear focus on provenance.