2 Canosan Volute Greek Kraters

2 Canosan Volute Greek Kraters

These kraters first surfaced on the market on May 30th, 1986 in Sotheby's Antiquities and Islamic Works of Art auction.

Their provenience is believed to be somewhere in Apulia, Southern Italy. A 1995 raid on Italian antiquities trafficker Giacomo Medici's Geneva warehouse revealed Polaroids of the kraters prior to conservation. A 2001 raid on Robert Hecht's Paris flat revealed additional post-conservation Polaroids of the vases.

Christos Tsirogiannis connected these images to the vases when they were offered for auction again at Christie's in 2012. The vases did not sell and were returned by Christie's to an unnamed New York seller. After Tsirogiannis alerted the Italian authorities, the vases were repatriated to Italy in September 2012. In 2013, they were exhibited along with other repatriated items at the National Museum of Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome.

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Vessel – pots, amphorae, vases, kraters

Canosan Greek

Sotheby's

Christie's New York

Private Collection, New York

Italy

David W. J. Gill and Christos Tsirogiannis, "Polaroids from the Medici Dossier: Continued Sightings on the Market" The Journal of Art Crime (Spring 2011)

Casey Bennett; Damien Huffer

Vanessa Rousseau; Damien Huffer