A provenance gap is a missing stretch in an object's ownership history. A provenance gap in the 1940s.
A gap covering the war years raises the question of whether the object was looted. A provenance gap does not prove anything wrong and makes an object very hard to sell.
1nounprovenance gapA missing stretch in an object's ownership history.
“The provenance gap between 1938 and 1947 stopped the sale.”
provenance gap is a gap.
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