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- noun Plural form of
provenience .
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Examples
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On the upper shelf a battery of jamjars (empty) of various sizes and proveniences.
Ulysses 2003
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Thus, false proveniences often are created before the looted objects are offered for sale.
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Those who conduct illicit excavations, ripping objects from their context in order to supply the art market, cannot provide well-documented proveniences.
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Alleged proveniences -- such as Luristan bronzes said to have been found in Urartu, and Urartian art said to be from the Caspian area -- have led to revolutionary interpretations of ancient trade.
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It's a sanitized Cesnola now canonized in new galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The brief account of the collection's history installed at the entrance to the new galleries fails to mention the chicanery that got the objects out of Cyprus, the fictionalized proveniences, or a ruinous lawsuit brought by numismatist Gaston Feuardent, who charged many pieces were faked.
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On the upper shelf a battery of jamjars (empty) of various sizes and proveniences.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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Nkoranza and Yeji, testing different proveniences of Jatropha curcas seeds.
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In June 2008, Smart Oil has produced more than 70000 Jatropha curcas plants, and has implemented two pilot plantations about 25 ha each, in Nkoranza and Yeji, testing different proveniences of Jatropha curcas seeds.
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