The art unit of Italy’s Carabinieri paramilitary police said the haul that arrived in Rome included 65 objects that a collector had offered Houston’s Menil Collection but were declined.
Italy celebrated the return Friday of 266 antiquities from the United States, including Etruscan vases and ancient Roman coins and mosaics worth tens of millions of euros , that were looted and sold to U.S. museums and private collectors.
The art unit of Italy’s Carabinieri paramilitary police said the haul that arrived Friday in Rome also included 65 objects that a collector had offered Houston’s Menil Collection but were declined While the carabinieri said the works had been part of the Menil Collection, the museum said they never were. The museum said a collector approached the museum in 2022 about making a gift of the artifacts, but the museum curator directed the collector to the Italian culture minister, “who alerted the museum that Italy was claiming the objects.”
The vase had been photographed and included in the famous Polaroid “archive” of dealer Giacomo Medici, who passed it onto Symes, who then “laundered the piece through Sotheby’s London,” Bragg’s office alleged. The objects remained in Symes’ New York storage unit until they were seized in March, the statement said.
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