BAAF 2015 - online catalogue by The Brussels Ancient Art Fair

THE BRUSSELS ANCIENT ART FAIR 2015

The Brussels Ancient Art Fair is organised by BAAF Organisation asbl Rue des Minimes 17 1000 Brussels - Belgium info@baaf.be www.baaf.be Board of BAAF Organisation asbl: Jacques Billen Dominique Thirion

Coordination: Franรงoise Barrier Graphic design: Geluck-Suykens, Brussels, Belgium Make-up: Raymond Aubry, Belgium Printer: Crousse Graphic sprl, Belgium

With special thanks to: Transport: Ziegler Expo logistics, Brussels, Belgium Box heads: Jo Bogaert Perennials, Kampenhout, Belgium Legal adviser: Marc Matthys, Brussels, Belgium

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FROM WEDNESDAY JUNE 10 TILL SUNDAY JUNE 14

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FROM WEDNESDAY JUNE 10 TILL SUNDAY JUNE 14

Vernissage Wednesday

June 10th

3 pm – 9 pm

Thursday

June 11th

11 am – 8 pm

Friday

June 12th

11 am – 7 pm

Saturday

June 13th

11 am – 7 pm

Sunday

June 14th

11 am – 5 pm

Exhibition

Foreword

June 2015 will be an important time for BAAF and its sister fair Asian Art in Brussels/AAB. This year, the ArtConnoisseurs cultural programme will be held in cooperation with the Musées Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire of Brussels at the Musée du Cinquantenaire, and with the active participation of the curators of the sections involved. ArtConnoisseurs was initiated by our fairs and implemented by the BIAPAL non-profit association in 2013. It consists of a series of high-level scientific lectures and exhibitions featuring ancient and Asian art (www.artconnoisseurs.eu). This is a first and we are very happy to see this synergy develop. In addition to the lectures at the museum, visitors to BAAF and AAB will have the opportunity to discover its storerooms with the curators during private guided tours. A fundraising party will also be held after the lectures to benefit various projects of the museum. The Institut belge des hautes études chinoises, which is also playing a very active part in ArtConnoisseurs, is organizing an exhibition of works by renowned American photographer Stephen Sack at the museum: Embracing Emptiness. From the Book of Lost Coins, Chapter Eight. It is an extraordinary macro-photographic artistic approach to antique Chinese coins. Eight, an extraordinary macro-photographic artistic approach to antique Chinese coins. This innovative collaboration is proof that the players of the art market, collectors and dealers, on one hand, and the scientific world, on the other, can come together and work hand-in-hand toward the same goals: to promote culture and the development of museums, pillars of our civilization, and to enrich their collections and preserve our cultural heritage for future generations. The role of collectors and dealers goes far beyond simply accumulating and selling objects. In practice, collectors are the curators of their own museums. They study, categorize, inventory and lovingly preserve art. They provide scientists who want to publish them with pieces that will, sooner or later, individually or as a group, become part of and complete public collections. A number of private collections have laid the groundwork for museums, have enriched, and continue to enrich them. Collectors give, bequeath or lend their objects to public museums, help them financially or found their own museums. Dealers, for their part, kindle and stoke callings; they are often the architects of private collections. They also often play the role of curator for temporary exhibitions at their own galleries. As the “guide”, they play an important educational role towards collectors and, more broadly, for other visitors. We must render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s: collectors and dealers make a substantial contribution to culture.

We are very far from the image projected by certain ignorant or ill-intentioned media, “journalists” who make us accomplices in the destruction of museums and archaeological sites by the Islamic State in Syria or in Iraq and the source illicit financing for international terrorist groups. I was blindsided by one such team of journalists from the German television channel ARD during BAAF last year. At their request, I showed them in great detail our exhibit of Little-Master cups organized at the Sablon and put together in collaboration with privatepatron collectors and lender museums. After spending about half an hour explaining the exhibition, I was asked what I thought, at the time at least, was a harmless question about how I could be sure that the objects exhibited hadn’t been stolen. I was puzzled, but answered the unexpected and preposterous question as well as I could, given that German isn’t my mother tongue. Of the entire film made of the guided tour of our exhibition, only these last 10 seconds were seen by the public during a cleverly sensationalist and apocalyptic report that caused quite a stir in Germany and criminalized our entire profession. It was clearly a manipulation of public opinion, disinformation and intellectual dishonesty. It should be noted that both the International Association of Dealers in Ancient Art (IADAA), whose members exhibit at BAAF, and all of the ancient art dealers of the planet condemn what is now happening in the Middle East. The Islamic State is destroying objects it deems to be impure. It doesn’t sell them. The images of destruction from the museums and martyr sites which they broadcast prove it: the Islamic State wouldn’t destroy the objects with hammers if they had any intention of selling them! The general public must absolutely know that we do not buy these objects from them and that the people involved in buying and selling ancient art do not in any way finance Islamic terrorism. To claim the contrary is a perversion of the truth. From a personal standpoint, I wonder why and in the name of what obscure politicostrategic stakes Western countries, led by the United States, with their intelligence capabilities and insolent military and technological superiority, have been unable to secure these extremely important archaeological sites. Or evacuate the contents of the museums recently destroyed by the Islamic State to a safe place, despite the fact that what has occurred was foreseeable a long time ago. Why didn’t American troops intervene to protect the Bagdad Museum and prevent the looting given that they were present at the time of events? History is repeating itself and we’re blaming the wrong people. The accomplices of the massive destruction of Syrian and Iraqi cultural and archaeological heritage sites are not ancient art dealers but our governments who, without the slightest qualms, allow the irreparable to occur without lifting a finger. At the risk of being rebuked and incurring retaliation, I must act according to my conscience and, paraphrasing Emile Zola in the Dreyfus Affair, state unequivocally: J’accuse…! Jacques Billen, Organising committee for the Brussels Ancient Art Fair (BAAF)

Vetting

The Brussels Ancient Art Fair is considered by many to boast one of the best Vetting Committees for antiquities in the world, with an exceptional panel of renowned experts, art historians, archeologists and Egyptologists. The members of the Vetting Committee have been very carefully selected to guarantee the quality and the authenticity of all exhibits, including the pieces published in the catalogue. Pieces are systematically rejected where there is the slightest doubt concerning their authenticity. Genuine, but overly restored objects are not admitted. Authentic, but poor quality items are rejected too as they are considered “not in the interest of the Fair.” The primary objective of the Brussels Ancient Art Fair has always been to protect its customers, who can buy from us with confidence. The Members of the Brussels Ancient Art Fair Vetting Committee: Dr. Corinne Besson Prof. Em. Dr. Herman A. G. Brijder Dr. Kirsten Konrad Prof. Dr. Detlev Kreikenbom Prof. Dr. Max Kunze Dr. Christian Loeben Peter Pamminger Dr. Cyril Thiaudière Prof. Dr. Rainer Vollkommer Dr. André Wiese

For further information and to read a short biography of each member, please see the “Vetting” section on our website: www.baaf.be

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Exhibiting at Ciel mes Bijoux Rue Ernest Allard 5 Brussels

Akanthos Ancient Art Karl Stimm

1 | Chariot mount with horses and pomegranate Roman, First century AD, found in Germany Bronze - H. 16 cm Provenance: Private collection, Germany Acquired ca. 1970 / HWM MZ Rhineland 2 | Balsamarium with a female head - ltaly, Etruscan, 3rd-2nd century BC Bronze - H. 9.6 cm Provenance: Belgian private collection; Charles Ede Ltd, London; Peter Tillou, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA 3 | Buckle and back plate with inlays Northern France, Merovingian, 7th century AD Iron, silver, copper - L. 7, 13.5 and 10.2 cm Provenance: Private collection EC, Belgium / Private collection Brussels, acquired in 1980

Akanthos Ancient Art Oever 7 - 2000 Antwerp - Belgium T +32 (0)3 2481855 - M +32 (0)486282354 akanthos@telenet.be - www.akanthos.be

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Antiken-Kabinett

Exhibiting at Costermans Place du Grand Sablon 5 Brussels

Bernd Gackst채tter

1 | Bust of an important dignitary - Roman, 2nd century AD Bronze - H. 9.7 cm Provenance: Collection Fritz Wappler, acquired in the 1930s 2 | Female idol - Anatolia, Chalcolithic, 7th millennium BC Stone - H. 2.4 cm Provenance: Collection E.A., Rhineland, Germany, acquired in the 1950s

Published: Bittel, K., Einige Idole aus Kleinasien, Berlin, 1953 (reprint from Praehistorischer Zeitschrift XXXIX/V, 1949/50, Zweite Halfte).

3 | Head of Medusa - Greek, 4th-3rd century BC Terracotta - Diam. 13.3 cm Provenance: Collection Bayerlein, Munich, Germany, acquired in the 1960s

Antiken-Kabinett Ganghoferstrasse 24 - 60320 Frankfurt/Main - Germany T +49 (0)69 519015 - F +49 (0)69 519026 - M +49 (0)1717124229 mail@antiken-kabinett.de - www.antiken-kabinett.de

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Archea Ancient Art

Exhibiting at Galerie Lorelei Place du Grand Sablon 3 Brussels

Vincent J. Geerling

1 | Arm guard - Central Europe, Middle Bronze Age, ca. 1500 BC Bronze - L. 25 cm Provenance: Ex-German private collection, acquired in 1980 2 | Shallow bowl with a pair of lugs - Greek, Early Cycladic I, ca. 3300-3000 BC Marble - Diam. 20 cm Provenance: Ex-Swiss private collection, acquired in 1975 at Münzen und Medaillen AG

ublished: Getz-Gentle, P., Stone vessels of the Cyclades in the Early Bronze Age, P Philadelphia, 1996, p. 262, No. D43

3 | Lip cup - Greek, Attic, ca. 550 - 540 BC Terracotta - Diam. 21.5 cm (with handles) Provenance: Ex-German private collection, 1970s

Beazley Archive No. 9646

Archea Ancient Art Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 37 ¹ - 1017 DC Amsterdam - The Netherlands T +31 (0)20 6250552 - F +31 (0) 20 4218768 - info@archea.nl - www.archea.nl

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Exhibiting at Gal. Theunissen & de Ghellinck Rue Watteeu 25 Brussels

Arteas Laura Bosc de Ganay

1 | Fragmentary round-topped stela showing Amenhotep I and Ahmes-Nefertari facing Amun Egypt, 19th Dynasty, ca. 13th century BC Limestone - H. 11.5 cm - W. 17 cm Provenance: Former Collection C., France, late 1960s, early 1970s 2 | Fragmentary cartonnage showing the goddess Nephthys Egypt, Third lntermediate Period, ca. l0th-9th century BC Gessoed and painted linen - H. 18.5 cm - W: 13 cm Provenance: Former G.I. Collection, the Netherlands, 1980s 3 | A papyrus adorned with five illustrations Egypt, Ptolemaic period, ca. 300-30 BC Papyrus, black and red ink - H. 29 cm - L. 21.5 cm Provenance: Old French collection, Cazenave, prior 1970 The full-scale vignette is the typical scene accompanying spell 15, the “page” of text is from the Book of the Dead, spells 113 and 114. The name of its owner: Lu-iu and his mother: Ta-Imen-iw’.

Arteas The Brentano Suite 25 – 2 Athenaeum Road – London N20 9AE – England T +44 2082114775 - F +44 2082114962 - M +33 607587876 arteasltd@gmail.com – www.arteasltd.com

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Exhibiting at Galerie Amélie de Borchgrave Rue des Minimes 15 Brussels

Cybèle Jean-Pierre Montesino

1 | Figure of the God Amun trampling the Nine Bows Egypt, Third lntermediate Period, 22nd Dynasty, ca. 1070–945 BC Gilded silver - H. 5.4 cm Provenance: Groth Collection, Zurich, Switzerland, 1980 2 | Overseer shabti of Hor - Egypt, Third lntermediate Period, 21st-22nd Dynasty, ca. 1070-800 BC Faience - H. 14 cm Provenance: Belgian private collection 3 | Hawk-headed figure of Horus - Egypt, Late Period, 6th century BC Bronze with gold inlays for the eyes - H. 13 cm Provenance: Collection G.F. van der Burgh, Den Haag, The Netherlands, 1983

Cybèle 65 bis, Rue Galande - 75005 Paris - France T +33 (0)1 43 54 16 26 - F +33 (0)1 46 33 96 84 - M +33 (0)6 03 03 29 45 cybele5@wanadoo.fr - www.galerie-cybele.com

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Exhibiting at Costermans Place du Grand Sablon 5 Brussels

Roswitha Eberwein Antike Kunst Gรถttingen Roswitha and Antonia Eberwein

1 | Set of udjat-eyes from the eye-panel of a coffin Egypt, Late Old Kingdom / First Intermediate Period, ca. 2200-2055 BC Grauwacke, limestone, and obsidian - L. 12.5 cm (eyebrow) Provenance: Former German Private collection, acquired 1970 2 | Standing figure of a woman - Egypt, Middle Kingdom, ca. 2000-1800 BC Wood - H. 74 cm Provenance: Former German private collection, end of the 19th century 3 | Statue of a seated baboon - Egypt, New Kingdom, Late Period, 2nd half of the first milllenium BC Limestone - H. 27.8 cm Provenance: Former German private collection

Roswitha Eberwein Antike Kunst Bismarckstrasse 4 - 37085 Gรถttingen - Germany 22 rue Jacob - 75006 Paris - France T +49 (0)55147083 - F +49 (0)55141543 - M +33(0)6 72 90 40 70 antonia.eberwein@ egypt-art.com - www.egypt-art.com

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Exhibiting at Galerie Ritter Rue Ernest Allard 17 Brussels

Galerie J端rgen Haering J端rgen Haering

1 | Red-figure column-krater by the Eucharides Painter - Greek, Attic, ca. 470 BC Terracotta - H. 40 cm Provenance: German private collection, acquired in 1987 Three men participating in a symposion, the host serving wine into a kylix, a young woman playing a double aulos. 2 | Askos - Western Greek, Campania, Late 4th century BC Black glazed terracotta - H. 7.6 cm Provenance: Belgian private collection, since the 1980s On top, a relief of a squatting sphinx, body of the vessel decorated with Ionian kymation 3 | Statue of Osiris - Egypt, Third lntermediate Period, ca. 1070- 711 BC Bronze - H. 21.2 cm Provenance: German private collection, before 1945 The god holding the royal insignia, crook and flail, wearing the atef-crown flanked by ostrich feathers and ram horns. Whiskers and eyebrows inlaid with ivory.

Galerie J端rgen Haering Marienstrasse 13 - 79098 Freiburg - Germany T +49 (0)76125330 - F +49 (0)7612927425 - M +49 (0)1752437489 info@galerie-haering.de

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Exhibiting at Galerie Harmakhis Rue des Minimes 17 Brussels

Galerie Harmakhis Jacques Billen

1 | Shabti of Neferibre-sa-Neith, born of Shepen-Bastet, the wab-priest of the King, chancellor of the King of Lower Egypt, administrator of the Palace Egypt, Late Period, 26th Dynasty, reign of Amasis, ca. 570-526 BC Faience - H. 18.5 cm Provenance: British Collection. The tomb of Neferibre-sa-Neith was excavated 1929 in Saqqara, south of the funerary complex of King Userkaf. A number of Neferibre-sa-Neith’s shabtis were subsequently sold by the Service des Antiquités de I’Égypte. 2 | Shabti of the sedjem-ash Hesymeref, worker at Deir el-Medineh Egypt, New Kingdom, end of the 18th Dynasty, ca. 1320 BC Wood - H. 19cm Provenance: Collection Omar Sultan Pacha, Cairo, early 20th century Published: Wiese, A.B., Agypten. Augenblicke der Ewigkeit, Mainz, 1997, pp. 191-2; Aubert, J.-F., Les statuettes funéraires de la collection Omar Pacha in Chronique d’Égypte 50 (101), 1976, p. 62, No. 283

Galerie Harmakhis Rue des Minimes 17 - 1000 Brussels - Belgium T +32 (0)2 511 65 39 - M +32 (0)475 650 285 harmakhis@skynet.be - www.harmakhis.be

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Exhibiting at Galerie Harmakhis Rue des Minimes 17 Brussels

The Merrin Gallery Samuel Merrin & Moshe Bronstein

1 | Mask of Silenus - Hellenistic, ca. 1st century BC Bronze - H. 20.2 cm Provenance: New York private collection, 2009 2 | Olmec bib-mask of a were-jaguar Mexico, Middle Preclassic period, ca. 1150-550 BC Jade - H. 8.8 cm Provenance: Private collection Edward H. Merrin, 1969; New York private collection Published: Edward H. Merrin Gallery, lnc., Pre-Columbian Masterpieces, New York, 1985, p. 32, pl. 42

3 | Mezcala face panel - Mexico, Guerrero, ca. 4th century BC Serpentine - 17.5 x 15 cm Provenance: Edward H. Merrin, 1968; North American private collection

The Merrin Gallery, Inc. 724 Fifth Avenue, 3rd floor - New York, NY 10019 - U.S.A. T +1 212 757 2884 - F +1 212 757 3904 - M +1 917 838 0500 info@merringallery.com â&#x20AC;&#x201C; www.merringallery.com

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Exhibiting at Harold t’Kint de Roodenbeke Rue Ernest Allard 31 Brussels

Galerie Günter Puhze GmbH Günter Puhze

1 | Marble portrait of a man from the time of Trajan - Roman, First century AD Marble - H. 25.5 cm Provenance: French collection, early 20th century 2 | Unusually large statuette of Thoth - Egypt, Ptolemaic Period Faience - H. 17.6 cm Provenance: Old British collection 3 | Amphora by the Baltimore Painter depicting Orpheus in the Underworld Apulia, 4th century BC Terracotta - H. 89 cm Provenance: M.C. Collection, Geneva, Switzerland, acquired in the 1960s Published: Trendall, A.D. - Cambitoglou, A., Second Supplement to the Red-Figured Vases of Apulia, London, 1992, p. 279, No. 40g Moret, J., Les Départs des Enfers dans l’Imagerie Apulienne in Revue archéologique 2, 1993, p. 293 et seq. Schauenburg, K., Studien zur unteritalischen Vasenmalerei IV/V, Kiel 2002, pp. 13-4, Pl. 11a-d

Galerie Günter Puhze GmbH Stadtstrasse 28 - 79104 Freiburg - Germany T +49 (0)761 25476 - F +49 (0)761 26459 - M +49 (0)171 201 28 61 office@galerie-puhze.de - www.galerie-puhze.de

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Exhibiting at Gal. Theunissen & de Ghellinck Rue Watteeu 25 Brussels

Galerie Tarantino Antoine Tarantino

1 | Oenochoe of Geometric style - Greek art, Attic, end of the 8th century BC Terracotta - H. 39 cm Provenance: Former Philippe Stoll Collection, Strasbourg, France, 1950-60s A very close parallel from Athens is kept in the Robinson collection, Baltimore, MD, USA. 2 | Pair of earrings with pendants - Greek art, found in Crimea, end of the 4th century BC Gold - H. 6.5 cm Provenance: Collection of Colonel Ribatchenkoff (1890-1975), then Colonel R. 3 | Plastic oenochoe in the shape of a womanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s head Greek art, Attic, ca. 480 BC, London Class, Type G Terracotta - H. 20 cm Provenance: GĂźnter Puhze, Freiburg, November 1998; Collection C.B.T., Paris, since 1998

Galerie Tarantino 38, rue Saint Georges - 75009 Paris - France M +33 (0)6 15 44 68 46 contact@ galerietarantino.com - www.galerietarantino.com

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Dominique Thirion Ars Antiqua

Exhibiting at Dominique Thirion Rue des Minimes 35 Brussels

Dominique Thirion

1 | Maternity - Ancient Iran, Caspian Sea, art said to be from Amlash, early 1st millenium BC Bronze - H. 9 cm Provenance: From an English private collection, acquired in the 1980s See H. Mahboubian, Art of Ancient Iran - Copper and Bronze, London, 1997, 274 and A. Spycket, The Human Form Divine from the collections of Elie Borowski, Jerusalem, 2000, 154.

2 | Bracelet with Herakles knot - Magna Graecia, 3rd century BC Gold, garnet, and glass paste - Diam. 7.9 to 7.5 cm Provenance: Belgian private collection, acquired in the 1970s This bracelet was probably formed from an ancient diadem whose ends were joined in the nineteenth century using the element containing the woman’s head.

See Ogden and Williams, Greek Gold, p. 65, N°18, inv. GR 1872.6-4.815.

3 | Namnetes or Veneti (Armorica, Nantes or Vannes area) AV quarter stater of the hippophore type - Late 2nd / early 1st century BC

Dominique Thirion Rue des Minimes 35 - 1000 Brussels - Belgium T +32 (0)2 503 50 21 - M +32 (0)477 465 907 dt@thirion-ancient-art.com - www.thirion-ancient-art.com

Photos © Paul Louis

1.82 g. LT 6724; Scheers BSFN 37 (1982) 6, pl. p. 183.13; Barrandon et alii, Gallic gold (1994), pl. VIl, 10; Santrot, M.-H. et alii, Nos ancêtres les Gaulois. Aux marges de l’Armorique, Musée Dobrée, Nantes, 1999, fig. 181; DT 2193 (same reverse die).

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Holding office at Rue des Minimes 61 Brussels

The Art Loss Register William Webber

The Art Loss Register First Floor - 63-66 Hatton Garden - London EC1N 8LE - United Kingdom T +44 (0)207841 5780 - F +44 (0)207841 5781 artloss@artloss.com - www.artloss.com

Collectors, Museums and the Art Trade

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The Art Loss Register (ALR) has over 382,000 stolen art and antiques on its database and has returned over £160m worth of items to their rightful owners. It aims to identify and recover stolen and missing works of art,deter art theft, reduce the trade in stolen art and protect art collections against loss.

Recovered by ALR Bouilloire et Fruits, Cézanne Oil on canvas

The ALR provides a research service to buyers and sellers of art; subject to the results, an ALR certificate is provided. To set up a search account please visit www.artloss.com and select ‘Search to see if an item is lost or stolen’. Stolen and missing works of art and antiques may be registered via our website, please select ‘Register a lost or stolen item’. Items will remain on the Register until such time as they are recovered. As a deterrent to theft and to avoid unauthorised sales, large private and public collections may be registered with the ALR. These items will be checked against private and public sales worldwide. To register a collection, please visit our website and select ‘Register a possession’ or contact your nearest office for further information.

The Art Loss Register 63-66 Hatton Garden, London EC1N 8LE T:+44 (0)20 7841 5780 E: info@artloss.com

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Exhibiting at Rue des Minimes 61 Brussels

BIAPAL Brussels International Art Promotion and Logistics asbl-vzw Olga Polunin and Matthieu Wolmark

BIAPAL Rue Charles Hanssens, 15 Tel. + 32 498 34 66 75 - contact@biapal.be - www.biapal.be

ART VIDEO PRODUCTION - ART LECTURE ORGANIZATION A DEDICATION TO ART Since its creation in 2013, BIAPAL has filmed and put online over 80 videos of antique artworks, conferences, exhibitions, interviews for art and antique dealers, museums, auction houses and art fairs. BIAPAL also co-organizes art lectures (Brafa Art Talks, Artconnoisseurs ) and films fascinating lectures and interviews of international scholars, curators, collectors and art lovers. We believe that art, art history and love of beauty are our common heritage and should be shared with all, connoisseur or amateur, old and young alike, wherever you are and whichever culture you belong to, art belongs to all of us. That is why it is our pleasure to share all our videos freely on the internet.

www.biapal.be

ArtConnoisseurs - a rendezvous with Art, Knowledge and Beauty, organised by AAB, BAAF, BIAPAL, and IBHEC in collaboration with the Royal Museums of Art and History. Friday 12 June from 5 pm to 7 pm Musées Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire (Musée du Cinquantenaire) Parc du Cinquantenaire - Brussels www.kmkg-mrah.be ArtConnoisseurs is a cultural programme taking place simultaneously to the art fairs which are held each June at the Sablon in Brussels. Since its first edition in 2013, ArtConnoisseurs has received over 30 speakers of international standing in the field of Archaeology, ancient and Asian art in order to add the pleasure of knowledge to the events of the fairs. Many videos of the conferences are available on the websites of ArtConnoisseurs (www.artconnoisseurs.eu), AAB (www.asianartinbrussels.com) and BAAF (www.baaf.be) and BIAPAL (www.biapal.be). This year, ArtConnoisseurs is honored to be welcomed by the Royal Museums of Art and History for a complete Connoisseur's day. On Friday the 12th of June, the Cinquantenaire Museum will host ArtConnoisseurs' lectures on Asian art and Archaeology given by the museum’s specialists and by invited international scholars as well as exceptionally open its reserves and offer private guided tours conducted by its curators. A fundraising party to benefit various projects of the museum after the lectures will end this Connoisseur's day with a drink in the historical cloisters of the museum. To browse the complete program and buy tickets for the fundraising party, go to : www.kmkg-mrah.be/mecenat As every year, the lectures will be filmed and made available online on the websites of ArtConnoisseurs, Asian Art in Brussels and Brussels Ancient Art Fair. ArtConnoisseurs is the cultural event organised by Asian Art in Brussels (AAB), Brussels Ancient Art Fair (BAAF), Brussels International Art Promotion and Logistics (BIAPAL) and the Institut Belge des Hautes Etudes Chinoises (IBHEC).

PRogRAMME oF LECTuREs on ARCHAEoLogy under the stars of nut. (Friday 12 June at 5 pm) The Egyptian Coffins of the Royal Museums of Art and History. By Luc Delvaux, Curator Dynastic and Greco-Roman Egypt, Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels The Royal Museums of Art and History of Brussels preserves more than thirty ancient Egyptian coffins, or fragments of coffins, dating from the Prehistory to the GrecoRoman period. In November 2015 will start an important operation of restoration of the series of coffins issued from the Second Cache of Deir el-Bahari (Bab el-Gasus), a mass grave dedicated to the Theban priests of Amun and their families (21st Dynasty, c. 950 BC). In this context, a new reappraisal of the whole collection of coffins of the Museum has been initiated, aiming mainly at the study of their archaeological contexts. This search has greatly improved our knowledge of the collection and brought new lights on its links with the main archaeological sites of Egypt.

Isis the magician: from text to image (Friday 12 June at 6 pm) By Prof Dr Olivier Perdu, Chair of Pharaonic Civilization of the College de France, Director of the Revue d’Egyptologie and Vice-President of the French Egyptology Society. Isis is one figure among the pantheon of pharaohs whose fame has spread widely beyond the Nile Valley. She came to represent the universal goddess for the Romans. Her popularity owes much to her role as spouse of Osiris and mother of Horus, but also to her talents as a magician that she deployed to protect her child. This facet of her personality, which has been abundantly commented upon in the texts, is also illustrated in images whose range and originality still needs to be further explored.

The Hellenistic and Roman gold of Mariemont: contrasting perspectives on an unpublished collection (Friday 12 June at 7 pm) By Annie Verbanck-Piérard, curator at the Royal Museum of Mariemont, Dr Corinne Besson, and Dr Cyril Thiaudière, founders of Aurum Antiquum (*) The communication will cover a lot of gold jewellery purchased by the Royal Museum of Mariemont in 1970 and believed to date from the Hellenistic Age. A multi-disciplinary stylistic and technical study has enabled a more precise dating of the jewellery, some of which are from the Roman period. Several analyses have focused on the composition and manufacturing techniques and revealed the reworking, modern additions and pastiches which have changed the original aspect of some of them. The presentation will also address the issue of the jewellery’s museological display and highlight its history, both ancient and modern. This research was carried out in collaboration with Véronique Lamy, Maxime Callewaert, François Mathys et al. (*) Aurum Antiquum: study and expertise office specializing in the field of antique jewellery from the Mediterranean basin Illustration: Hellenistic gold earing, Musée royal de Mariemont, inv. Ac.70/31 © Musée royal de Mariemont – photo M. Lechien.

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Kipper Collection donates to the Art institute of Chicago BARBARA LEVY KIPPER, a long time supporter of the Art Institute of Chicago, has pledged to give the museum nearly 400 items from her collection of Buddhist ritual objects and Asian ethnic jewellery. Kipper’s gift will provide an important new dimension to the museum’s collections of Indian, Himalayan, Central Asian, Southeast Asian and Chinese art. An exhibition of the objects, with an accompanying catalogue, is planned for the museum’s Regenstein Hall in the summer of 2016. Kipper, the former chairman of the book distributor, Chas Levy Company, and a Life Trustee of the Art Institute, is a wide-ranging collector who previously has made generous donations to the museum’s departments of Photography, Prints and Drawings, as well as Asian Art. This latest commitment comprises a selection of 394 pieces from the remarkable Barbara and David Kipper Collection of more than 1,200 items of Asian jewellery and ritual

objects. Additionally, she is also making a further gift of more than a dozen objects of African jewellery to the museum. Kipper explains her love of jewellery collecting by saying, ‘When I started travelling and casually photographing in the 1960s, it never occurred to me that I would become either a serious collector or photographer. Sadly, the cultures to which I was drawn have become shadows of themselves, their craftsmanship severely compromised. The jewellery and ritual objects in the collection exemplify the exuberance of what once was. I take pleasure in knowing that these objects are now safe from destruction, their journeys completed.’ The most comprehensive part of Kipper’s gift comes from the Himalayas, including Tibet and other regions of the Tibetan Buddhist cultural sphere. Of these, the most extraordinary is a wide-ranging collection of ga’us, or portable amulet boxes, originating from Tibet, but also

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HALI is back with a select group of international dealers exhibiting antique rugs and textiles. A series of events curated by HALI will run concurrently with the fair. For further information contact: David Young â&#x20AC;&#x201C; david.young@hali.com +44 20 7657 1209 www.hali.com

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the ancient art event

In the autumn top international dealers in classical, Egyptian and Near Eastern antiquities gather again in the elegant setting of the Wenkenhof â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a lavish baroque residence in Riehen, on the outskirts of Basel. Quality is the key word, not only in objects and expertise but in context too. Set in a magnificent park, the Reithalle Wenkenhof has proved to provide the perfect ambience for a November fair. All participants are member of the International Association of Dealers in Ancient Art (IADAA) and follow a strict code of ethics concerning the authenticity and provenance of the objects they sell. Lunch or a refreshment at the BAAF Bistro completes the experience. Please visit our website for more information; www.baaf.ch

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A selection of Belgian museums with archaeological collections Musées Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis Parc du Cinquantenaire - Jubelpark 10 1000 Brussels Tel: +32 (0)2 741.72.11 Website: www.kmkg-mrah.be Open: Tue-Fri 9.30-17.00 Sat-Sun 10.00-17.00

Gallo-Roman Museum Kielenstraat 15 B-3700 Tongeren Tel: +32 (0)12 670330 E-mail: grm@limburg.be Website: www.galloromeinsmuseum.be Open: Tue-Fri 9.00-17.00 Sat-Sun and public holidays 10.00-18.00

The largest collections of Classical, Egyptian and Near-Eastern archaeology in Belgium.

Important collection of Prehistoric, Gallo-Roman and Merovingian archaeology, beautifully displayed.

Musée de Louvain-la-Neuve Place Blaise Pascal 1 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve Tel: +32 (0)10 47.48.41 Website: www.muse.ucl.ac.be Open: Mon-Fri 10.00-18.00 Sun 14.00-18.00

Museum aan de Stroom (MAS) Hanzestedenplaats 1 2000 Antwerpen Tel: +32 (03) 338.44.44 E-mail: mas@stad.antwerpen.be Website: www.mas.be Open: Tue-Sun 10.00-17.00

Small but interesting collections of Classical, Egyptian and Near-Eastern archaeology.

Antwerp and the world through objects from 5 continents, including the Egyptian collections formerly in the Vleeshuis.

Musée Royal de Mariemont Chaussée de Mariemont 100 7140 Morlanwelz Tel: +32 (0)64 21.21.93 Website: www.musee-mariemont.be Open: Tue-Fri 10.00-18.00 Very important collections of Classical, Egyptian and Near-Eastern archaeology. Located in a wonderful park.

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International Association of Dealers in Ancient Art Code of Ethics â&#x20AC;&#x201C; an extract from Article 11 of the Rules of the IADAA 1T he members of IADAA undertake to the best of their ability to make their purchases in good faith. 2 The members of IADAA undertake not to purchase or sell objects until they have established to the best of their ability that such objects were not stolen from excavations, architectural monuments, public institutions or private property. 3 The members of IADAA refuse to dismember and sell separately parts of one complete object. 4 The members of IADAA undertake to the best of their ability to keep objects together that were originally meant to be kept together. 5 The members of IADAA undertake to the best of their ability to keep photographic records prior to repair and restoration, to be honest and open by describing in writing the amount of repair and restoration undertaken to a prospective purchaser. 6 Members guarantee the authenticity of all objects they offer for sale. 7 Members of IADAA undertake to the best of their ability to inform the Administrative Board about stolen goods and thefts. They also undertake to co-operate with international and national agencies involved with the recovery of stolen goods. 8 It is a condition of membership that all members undertake to check items which are to be sold at a price of â&#x201A;Ź 5,000 or over (or local currency equivalent) with the Art Loss Register or with a stolen art register which is recognised by the Board, unless the item has already been checked. 9 IADAA condemns illegal use of metal detectors. More information about IADAA and its views on collecting antiquities can be found on the IADAA website www.iadaa.org

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