Word: vase
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...liked to have a few drinks with the film crew, or with the local wranglers. Whiting's attitude toward all this, she had said, had been jealously possessive. Once he had grabbed her by the neck during an argument over her socializing, and she had thrown a vase...
...notoriety of the New York Metropolitan Museum's Euphronios vase (TIME, March 5) has had at least one beneficial effect: directing attention to the scandalous world market in archaeological thievery. The looting of ancient sites is an ancient custom. A great deal of the treasure in the world's museums was originally pirated by foreign powers or smuggled out. Today the countries of the world officially operate on more elevated principles-but art thievery thrives as never before. It is a multimillion-dollar business that gets amphetamine shots from events like...
...matter what everyone else was saying about the Met's million-dollar Greek vase (TIME, March 5), John D. Cooney, curator of ancient art at the prestigious Cleveland Museum, had his own outspoken opinions. Were the Metropolitan Museum and Thomas Having in the wrong to pick up the 2,500-year-old krater that may have been bootlegged out of Italy? "Ninety-five percent of ancient art material in this country has been smuggled in," Cooney said. "If the museums began to send back all the smuggled material to their countries of origin, the museum walls would be bare...
Ingres's brand of neoclassicism also derived a great deal from Greek coins and painted vases like those contained in the Frederick Watkins Collection exhibited on the first floor. Of particular interest is the Kleophrates vase, a work considered by some experts to be even more significant than the Met's latest embarassment...
Reporters who reached Sarrafian, 68, found him a little vague. "My interest is in coins," he said in Beirut. "I care little for vases." He had really paid little attention to the calyx krater. The pieces had been in a hatbox from 1926, when his father died, until 1970, when he consigned the box to Hecht. There were some odd discrepancies in his story. The Met had said that Hecht only got an agent's 10% of the price. Sarrafian suggested otherwise. The Met said the vase had no missing parts. Sarrafian said there were pieces missing, some...