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unusual facts about provenance


Meike Hoffmann

Meike Hoffmann (born 1962) is a German art historian and provenance researcher.


Açores VR

The quality and prestige of Azorean wines have been recognized for a long time, resulting in the recognition of three Indicações de Proveniência Regulamentada (Indication of Regulated Provenance) for the wines of Pico, Graciosa and Biscoitos.

Aegean civilizations

Aegean vases have been exhibited both at Sèvres and Neuchatel since about 1840, the provenance (i.e. source or origin) being in the one case Phylakope in Melos, in the other Cephalonia.

Antimonial cup

The provenance shows that it was acquired on loan in 1983 from Lady Rowley, daughter of the 8th Viscount Galway, Governor General of New Zealand.

Buddleja 'Bel Argent'

Buddleja 'Bel Argent' is a French hybrid cultivar of undisclosed provenance, raised by Jean-François Giraud of Le Jardin de Rochevieille, Viviers, near Montelimar.

Cachiyacuy

The specific name of the type species is named after the geographical provenance of the specimens, close to the city of Contamana.

Decalogue Stone

Los Lunas Decalogue Stone, a large boulder on the side of Hidden Mountain, near Los Lunas, New Mexico, that bears a Hebrew inscription of unknown provenance

E. Randol Schoenberg

Painter Lance Richlin produced a portrait of Schoenberg himself, shown together with one of the Klimts he helped recover, in tribute to Schoenberg's role in promoting "more research and transparency in artwork provenance".

Gizmodo

With Apple confirming its provenance, bloggers such as John Gruber and Ken Sweet speculated that this transaction may have violated the California Penal Code.

Laughing Cavalier

The painting's provenance only goes back to a sale in The Hague in 1770; after further Dutch sales it was bought by the Franco-Swiss banker and collector the Comte de Pourtalès-Gorgier in 1822.

Mandara Kingdom

The kingdom was first referred to by Fra Mauro (in 1459) and Leo Africanus (in 1526); the provenance of its name remains uncertain.

Nothofagus obliqua

Trees cultivated from material collected from Ñuble, which is the provenance closest to the Equator, were the most damaged by frosts.

Pius Alibek Hermez

He collaborates in the program "The Travelers of the Grand Anaconda" (Catalan: "Els Viatgers de la Gran Anaconda") of Catalunya Ràdio, where he hosts the segment "Travelling Words" (Catalan: "Paraules Viatgeres"), which explores how words were born and how they have evolved, especially words of Eastern provenance.

Radiocarbon 14 dating of the Shroud of Turin

a sample of the cloak having belonged to Louis IX of France and preserved in Saint-Maximin, Var, France, which had a verifiable provenance and was woven between 1240 and 1270.

Silverton Park

The art forger Shaun Greenhalgh and his father bought a copy of the 1892 sale catalogue and used the unillustrated catalogue descriptions to recreate items, for which the catalogue would provide a spurious provenance.

Soil Stradivarius

The provenance of this violin includes the French luthier and collector Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, the Viennese collector Oscar Bondy, who also owned the Hellier Stradivarius of 1679.

Ulamburiash

Confirmation of his provenance comes from an onyx weight, in the shape of a frog, with a cuneiform inscription, “1 shekel, Ulam Buriaš, son of Burna Buriaš”, which was found in a large burial, during excavations of the site of the ancient city of Metsamor.

Witch ball

However as the modern Christmas bauble's origins are documented in Lauscha, Germany in 1847, the provenance of this claim is debatable.


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