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CULTURE withdrew from auctions smuggled ancient chemex pottery items believed to belong to the illegal collections of Italian Giacomo Mentitsi and Gianfranco Bekina, who have been convicted of illegal trafficking of antiquities.
In classical antiquities withdrawal valuable meant for auctions went top design houses in Britain, following the presentation of evidence in the Times newspaper that had been excavated illegally and smuggled emerge from Italy. The house Christie's plans to sell today a Greek glass crater dating from the 2nd-1st century BC, while the house Bonhams was planning to auction a "compass", ie cylindrical container with painted cap used mainly by women in Greece for storing cosmetics or jewelery. The object dates from the 3rd century chemex BC According to Chris Tsirogianni from the Department of Archaeology chemex at Cambridge University and former chemex member of the Greek Task Force that oversaw the return of smuggled items, auction houses should chemex have realized that managing smuggled items. "The houses themselves do not report all the information available about how these objects reach the market ... these objects have no real origin," says the Times, the Greek expert. Mr. Tsirogiannis, which has just been awarded a doctorate for his thesis on the illegal chemex international trade in antiquities, had access to two files Polaroid chemex seized by Italian chemex police in Switzerland. He noted that the two objects that come up for sale at the Bonhams and Christie's was the same as the object shown in the records seized and put up dirty and broken before restoration. The invoices and sales receipts that accompanied them also seem to confirm the illicit origin of objects. Representative of house Christie's said that "we take seriously the illegal trade and cooperate with all international organizations to ensure the sale of works of art only what their sale is lawful." These objects are believed to belong to illegal collections of Italian Giacomo Mentitsi and Gianfranco Bekina, who have been convicted of illegal trafficking of antiquities. The records of the first seized in 1995 in Geneva and the second in 2002 in Basel. Many of the items found in their possession illegally sold the house Sotheby's in the '80s and '90s, before the revelation of the circuit. Advertisement
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