provenience

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I mean, I’ve heard of provenance — the unbroken chain of ownership of, say, an old master painting or Tang dynasty vase — but provenience?

From Washington Post • Nov. 9, 2015

However, there is still no definitive word on the masks’ provenience and they say their detective work will continue.

From Washington Times • Aug. 15, 2015

Both at Sevres and Neuchatel Aegean vases have been exhibited since about 1840, the provenience being in the one case Phylakope in Melos, in the other Cephalonia.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

Consequently it is necessary for a traveller to learn from the inhabitants the provenience of each cranium, and every one in the house knows it.

From The Pagan Tribes of Borneo by Haddon, Alfred C. (Alfred Cort)

Maeterlinck's speculations, despite their medieval provenience, have a practical orientation.

From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Heller, Otto