Showing posts with label Christie's. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christie's. Show all posts
January 29, 2026

Ancient Women, Modern Crime: How Etruscan Women Were Trafficked Across the World

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I have long been fascinated by the reddish-buff clay figures of barefoot women placed along the eaves of ancient Etruscan roofs. Dressed in ...
January 8, 2026

The Partridge Chase: How two Roman toddlers led Spain to a trafficking breakthrough

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Today, two extraordinary Roman bronze genre statues, each depicting a young toddler leaning forward with open arms pursuing a partridge were...
December 23, 2025

A Case Study in Patience: The Long Journey Home for the Stela of Adad-nerari III

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Back in the Spring of 2014, the art world found itself drawn to a particularly controversial object slated to come up for auction in Bonhams...
October 8, 2025

Caveat Emptor: What the Dancing Maenad Can Tell Us About the Market for Looted Art

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Christie's 2019 Auction In November 2019, ARCA published a blog post raising questions about a 5th-century BCE polychrome antefix depict...
May 16, 2024

Rising Threats in the Art Market's Cybersecurity Landscape

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While Christie's website continues to state  “We apologise that our full website is currently offline” redirecting visitors to a tempora...
January 31, 2021

Sometimes restitution is a little like putting lipstick on a pig

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Left: Steve Green and the Controversial Coptic Galatians fragment first offered on eBay in 2012 by Yakup Ekşioğlu. Right: Douglas Latchford ...
July 30, 2020

Restitution: Lot 448, Christie's

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Early last November we wrote a blog post asking Christie's about an interesting polychrome painted 5th century BCE antefix in the f...