PROVENANCE

About: 

• In matters of antiques, the word means “the record of the ownership of a movable work of art”. 
  
  
• When provenance is unclear, museums and institutions of repute do not usually deal with such works of art. 
  
  
• Over 100 countries are signatories to the UNESCO 1970 convention on the means of prohibiting and preventing the illicit, export ad transport of ownership of cultural property.   
  
  
• For evidence of provenance, UNESCO relies on INTERPOL database of stole objects and national inventories. When an object is not listed, establishing its provenance becomes problematic.