Context Matters: Fragmented Athenian Cups

In December 2021 it was announced that the San Antonio Museum of Art would be returning a number of objects to Italy. The overall return formed part of a series of seizures including 180 objects from the collection formed by Michael Steinhardt, and 96 items from the Walsh collection at Fordham University, plus further objects from the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Cleveland Museum of Art. These seizures formed part of a major investigation into the objects handled by the dealer Edoardo Almagià, and were informed by Almagià’s ‘Green Book’ containing some 1700 records.