The vase, known as a bell krater and used to hold wine, has been the subject of questions over its provenance and whether it was originally looted from Italy decades ago. A warrant issued July 24 ...

The first, a 2,300-year-old Greek vase known as a bell krater, which was used for mixing water and wine, was turned over to the Manhattan district attorney’s office by the museum after ...

Medici, who was convicted in 2004 of conspiring to traffic antiquities, denies any connection to the vase. The red-figure painted terracotta bell krater, attributed to the artist Python and dated ...

Medici turned up one morning at Hecht’s apartment in Rome and showed him a Polaroid photograph of a krater signed by Euphronios, a master vase painter of ancient Greece, the memoir says.

It is expected that the vase will ultimately be returned to Italy, as was the Euphronios Krater, another Greek vase that was illegally excavated in Italy in 1971, bought by the Met in 1972 ...

The vase, which was displayed for more than two decades in the Greco-Roman galleries of the museum, is a vividly painted bell krater depicting Dionysus, the god of wine, fertility, and creative ...

The vase was decorated with a painting of Dionysus ... with the Italian Ministry of Culture regarding the Terracotta Bell Krater (1989.11.4).” The museum’s acquisitions policy states that ...

See About archive blog posts. Last year New York’s Metropolitan Museum sent back to Italy the Euphronios krater, the great sixth-century BC painted vase it had acquired under dubious ...

It says it turned the vase over to officials on July 25. The artifact is a bell krater, used to hold wine. The warrant says it dates to 360-350 B.C. and has an image of the Greek god Dionysus ...

Medici, who was convicted in 2004 of conspiring to traffic antiquities, denies any connection to the vase. The red-figure painted terracotta bell krater, attributed to the artist Python and dated ...