tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post2915697914986594620..comments2024-03-27T04:46:33.198-07:00Comments on Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Piecing Together the History of "The Ezeldeen Taha Eldarir Collection" from Dealers' "Documentation": Summary (As Things Stand Today)Paul Barfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post-76368791994440162482020-07-09T01:27:49.138-07:002020-07-09T01:27:49.138-07:00Agreed on the approach (not reading before) as I u...Agreed on the approach (not reading before) as I use the same. It allows us each to develop non-parroting narratives. But having said that, you and I arrived at the same suspicion, without having talked or read one another's essays. <br /><br />Rose, intentionally, in my opinion, left off the full consignor details on some of Eldarir's pieces. That only becomes clear when the same pieces resurface later WITH Eldarir being mentioned. This leads me to eliminate the possibility that Eldarir used a straw many to consign some of the objects to Rose, while consigning others directly. <br /><br />Another hugely interesting thing is the verbage of all of the provenance across these sales. It reads as if it was scripted to be almost exactly the same, aside from the spelling of the names. <br /><br />My question there is, at whose urging? <br /><br />Was this a tactic Eldarir demanded when selling the objects, or was the copy and pasting something informally all the ancient art dealers arrived at individually and elected individually to use, hoping that it allowed for more simplified tracing should anyone choose to google the collection's origins, and so as making the collection easier to find in circulation showing the wider connection to a body of dealers who have cosmetically done due diligence when accepting this collection as legitimate. <br />lalbertsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15558439785323763238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post-54558442001173130892020-07-08T21:45:20.399-07:002020-07-08T21:45:20.399-07:00And to reinforce the picture that I paint about a ...And to reinforce the picture that I paint about a change in the story c 2005/6, when that piece appears at Christie's in 2012, it did not have those three names in the (published) "provenance". Paul Barfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post-60281414562434593642020-07-08T21:43:14.762-07:002020-07-08T21:43:14.762-07:00Yes, I saw you were writing on this at the same ti...Yes, I saw you were writing on this at the same time as me, but deliberately did not read it until after mine had gone up, to avoid overlap. When I did, I realised that I'd missed the Cahn ones, I will update this later on today. I think the early phase of marketing this stuff needs a closer look, but think we should wait and see what a court case produces. But I think this one reveals quite a lot of things about the antiquities market. Paul Barfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post-46904322257866156982020-07-08T05:42:20.488-07:002020-07-08T05:42:20.488-07:00Add this one to your list (I think it is the earli...Add this one to your list (I think it is the earliest) or at least the ones using the same three provenances. <br /><br />It is harder to catch as it does not list the name but turned up later with the name at TEFAF with Jean-David Cahn this year. <br /><br />https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/a-roman-marble-portrait-head-of-a-5627896-details.aspxlalbertsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15558439785323763238noreply@blogger.com