ITALY: Christie’s and the Italian authorities

In March 2014, Dr. Christos Tsirogiannis identified an ancient Greek glass wine jug (‘oinochoe’) in the Christie’s antiquities auction catalogue for the sale of April 2, 2014 in London. The oinochoe was depicted in an image from the confiscated archive of the notorious and convicted antiquities trafficker Giacomo Medici. At the same time, he also…