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PS: I really hope the following from the article is true:

She said the vase had been taken not, as previously reported, from its glass case in an exhibition room, but from a restoration room in the back of the museum where experts were working on the piece. "It had been broken in half in antiquity, and had been repaired in the past. ... It was brought back in exactly the same condition it left the museum. It hadn't suffered any more damage," she said.

Is it just me, or does that vase look utterly unlike the original? Look at the curves--they don't match up at all.

Note that in the colour picture the remnants of the vase are on its side, lying on some green cloth. Folds in the cloth partically obscure the vase. And the angle is as if the second photo is taken from a much lower p.o.v. compared to the first. (Un?)fortunately definitely the same vase.

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