Pair of blue and white pear-shaped bottle vases Kangxi at Kunsthandel Jacques Fijnaut bv Silver & Works of Art.
With an insistence on quality underpinnings its success TEFAF, the European Fine Art Fair, celebrates its silver jubilee at the Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre in The Netherlands from March 16 to March 25, 2012. This year there is a spectactular new entrance hall with a light installation by artist Leo Villareal.
Two-fold paper screen Japan,Edo period, 17th century at Gregg Baker Asian Art.
A special silver jubilee book, Celebrating the Best, 25 Years of TEFAF Maastricht, published to mark the Fair’s Silver Jubilee, looks at its part in what has been a turbulent quarter of a century in the history of the art market. Authors, Paula Weideger, Will Bennett, Diana Cawdell and Gareth Harris, have talked to the dealers who founded the Fair, those who work behind the scenes, some of the private collectors and museum curators who buy there, people of Maastricht and others who have contributed to its success.
There will be 260 art and antiques dealers from Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Korea, Monaco, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States and Uruguay at TEFAF.
(See posts on antiquesandartireland.comfor January 5 and January 18, 2012).
Lucas Cranach the Elder (Kronach 1472-1553 Weimar) Tondo of Martin Luther Oil on wood, diameter 12.5 cm at Senger Bamberg Kunsthandel.
Pierre Hache (1703-1776), in the workshop of Thomas Hache (1664-1747) Commode with three drawers and a marquetry top France, Louis XV period, circa 1730-1740 at Galerie Perrin.