"New York private collection" is no legitimating collection history

ChasingAphrodite, vexed by a dealer's questions from the floor at the Conflict Antiquities meeting  tweeted:

Check out provenance on Syrian object sold by skeptical antiquities dealer: "New York private collection" http://www.hixenbaugh.net/gallery/detail.cfm?itemnum=6107 …

[a Syro-Hittite Terracotta Ram with a plasticine foot]. See my text on his incantation bowls. Founder member of ACDAEA.