The Worcester Art Museum has entered into a cultural agreement with the Italian government after identifying two objects from its collection that appear to have been unlawfully removed from Italy in the 1950s. The museum transferred ownership of the two antiquities — a black-figure amphora (storage jar) and a kylix (drinking cup) — to Italy but will keep them as loans for a period of four to eight years.
After this loan period, the two objects will be returned to Italy in exchange for a loan of comparable antiquities from Italian museums. The loans will recur on a rotating basis. This is the first such agreement of its kind for the museum, it said in the announcement.
