{"id":4762,"date":"2013-06-17T10:44:20","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T10:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/blog\/?p=4762"},"modified":"2024-03-08T00:09:11","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T05:09:11","slug":"antiquities-with-a-proven-record-drive-auction-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2013\/06\/antiquities-with-a-proven-record-drive-auction-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Antiquities, With a Proven Record, Drive Auction Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/06\/15\/arts\/15iht-melikian15.html?ref=arts&amp;_r=0\">Antiquities, With a Proven Record, Drive Auction Market<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; an interesting article on the state of the antiquities market and why provenance and dates of ownership are so important. \u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unesco.org\/new\/?id=48500\">1970 Unesco Convention<\/a> has helped to slow down the trade in stolen artifacts and more museums and collectors are now shying away from works that lack an early provenance. \u00a0Works that have appeared on the market before 1970 bring exceptional prices and the others are having a very difficult time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2013\/06\/15\/arts\/15iht-melikian15-inline2\/15iht-melikian15-inline2-articleInline.jpg\" alt=\"15iht-melikian15-inline2-articleInline\" width=\"190\" height=\"327\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Egyptian bronze cat that sold for $2.02 million<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antiquities, With a Proven Record, Drive Auction Market\u00a0&#8211; an interesting article on the state of the antiquities market and why provenance and dates of ownership are so important. \u00a0 The 1970 Unesco Convention has helped to slow down the trade &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2013\/06\/antiquities-with-a-proven-record-drive-auction-market\/?contemporary=N\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-4762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rehs-galleries","tag-rehs-galleries-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Antiquities, With a Proven Record, Drive Auction Market<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2013\/06\/antiquities-with-a-proven-record-drive-auction-market\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Antiquities, With a Proven Record, Drive Auction Market\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Antiquities, With a Proven Record, Drive Auction Market\u00a0&#8211; an interesting article on the state of the antiquities market and why provenance and dates of ownership are so important. \u00a0 The 1970 Unesco Convention has helped to slow down the trade &hellip; More...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2013\/06\/antiquities-with-a-proven-record-drive-auction-market\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rehs Galleries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RehsGalleriesInc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/howard.rehs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-06-17T10:44:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-03-08T05:09:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2013\/06\/15\/arts\/15iht-melikian15-inline2\/15iht-melikian15-inline2-articleInline.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Howard L. 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