Observed arrival · 2026-11-04
Art Theft Registry’s one-search provenance check
A provenance-checking service that says it searches object photographs and 104 databases across 42 countries, then presents findings in reports.
- For
- Art buyers, dealers, auction houses, customs officers, and investigators
- Worth noticing
- The sample gives a negative stolen-database result while tracing an archive photograph to a 2025 auction catalogue.
Field notes
The sample report distinguishes a search result from provenance evidence: it records no match in the stolen-art databases while linking an archive negative to a 2025 auction lot. The homepage also displays collection records from Peru and Mexico, with museum and site counts and photography dates in May 2026. Its totals for photographs, detected objects, and databases are the site's own stated coverage figures, not independently verified by the supplied extract.
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Editorial observations of this landing page, not a rating.
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