Giacomo Medici Polaroids

The September 1995 raid on the Geneva Freeport premises of Giacomo Medici brought to light a major archive of some 4000 photographs. These images, some Polaroids, have been used by the Italian authorities to identify objects that have passed into public and private collections. (Looting Matters)

SCULPTURE


Roman Marble Figure of Youth.
1st-2nd c. A.D.
27in (68.6cm)
Standing naked, the weight on his right leg, his left leg relaxed, supported by the column and strut on his left, standing on an integral base.

APPEARED:

• Sotheby's, 12.1986, 287.
• Bonham's, (28.04.2010), 137 [Withdrawn after Looting Matters published polaroids and ArchaeologyMatters remarked it was in sale...see here and here]

Roman Marble Torso of Youth, holding cockerel.
c. 2nd c. A.D.
24 in. (60.9 cm.) high.
Depicted nude, standing in contrapposto with his weight originally on his left leg, the right leg relaxed, his torso twisting with his right shoulder slightly forward, holding a cockerel in his left arm, his hand at the bird's left wing, its tail feathers curving along the contours of the boy's hip, remnants of a strut along his right thigh, a fragment of a support preserved along the back of his left thigh.

APPEARED:
Christie's, New York, 10.06.2010, 139.

SEE:
Looting Matters







TERRACOTTAS


A GREEK TERRACOTTA FEMALE CANOSAN, HELLENISTIC PERIOD, CIRCA 3RD CENTURY B.C.
17½ in. (44.4 cm.) high
Standing with her weight on her right leg, her left bent at the knee and pulled back, wearing a peplos and a himation draped over her left shoulder and around her torso, her arms lowered with her forearms projecting forward, holding a mask of Medusa in her left hand, the right missing, a thick fillet with radiating leaves in her center-parted hair, preserving traces of pigment, including black, white, blue and pink




APPEARED:
Christie's, New York, Sale 2323 (10.06.2010), lot 110.

(Given Provenance: Japanese Private Collection, 1980s.)

SEE:
Looting Matters here and here.
























CERAMIC

Attic

• Bonham's, 10.2008, 6: Attic black-figured column-krater. Surfaced: Sotheby's London, Antiquities, July 13th-14th, 1987, lot 440. (Source: Looting Matters)
• Bonham's, 10.2008, 9: Attic red-figured bell-krater. Surfaced: Sotheby's London, Antiquities, May 20th, 1985, lot 383. (Source: Looting Matters)

Apulian

• Bonham's, 10.2008, 10: Apulian hydria. Surfaced: Sotheby's London, Antiquities, May 21st, 1984, lot 384. (Source: Looting Matters)
• Bonham's, 10.2008, 15: Apulian oinochoe. Surfaced: Sotheby's London, Antiquities, December 8th, 1986, lot 185. (Source: Looting Matters)
• Bonham's, 10.2008, 10: Apulian bell-krater. Surfaced: Sotheby's London, Antiquities, December 8th, 1986, lot 188. (Source: Looting Matters)

Campanian

• Bonham's, 10.2008, 26: Campanian bell-krater. Surfaced: Sotheby's London, Antiquities, May 22nd, 1989, lot 199.(Source: Looting Matters)
• Bonham's, 10.2008, 36: Campanian neck-amphora. "Ex Amati collection, London, acquired in the mid-1970s."(Source: Looting Matters)

South Italian Terracotta

• Bonham's, 10.2008, 133: Figure of Eros. "Ex Australian private collection, acquired in the 1970s. Previously acquired from Sotheby's London." (Source: Looting Matters)