Unclaimed art is a real and surprisingly deep subject. Storage unit contents, estate remainders, abandoned consignments, works held by institutions with no traceable owner, and the whole category of pieces whose provenance broke somewhere along the way. There's a serious side and a commercial one. The serious side is restitution and provenance research, an active field with … [Read more...] about unclaimedart.com
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An antiquary is someone who studies antiquities. It's an older and more scholarly word than antiques dealer, carrying a sense of expertise rather than commerce, and the learned societies using the title date back centuries. That scholarly register is the asset. The antiques trade has a credibility problem at the low end and a knowledge premium at the high end, and a name that … [Read more...] about antiquary.net