Events
Biennale Paris in September 2017
It has been a great pleasure to receive collectors and curators on our stand (n° S18), located in the left main aisle of the Grand Palais, in our extravagant decor representing the Captain’s cabin of a ship-of-the-line of the eighteenth century !
We were also very pleased to receive the award "Prix de la Commission Biennale" for the high quality of the objects presented and for our extravagant special decor.
Between Monday 11th and Sunday 17th of September 2017, we exhibited our different specialities :
- Marine & Scientific instruments
- Tobacco and Opium artefacts
- Canes of collection
- Curiosities as from Renaissance period
Please discover below the photos of our stand at the Grand Palais.
- Award "Prix de la Commission Biennale"
- Photos of our stand at the Grand Palais
- Localisation of our stand (S 18) in the Grand Palais
- Portolan signed Peter Goos and Johannes van Keulen made in Amsterdam cicra 1660/1680
- Round brass sundial signed HYERONIMVS VVLPARIA . FA (ciebat) dated 1577
- Pair of terrestrial and celestial floor globes signed Cary London and dated 1816
- Meerschaum sculpture of the bust of Princess Sophie of Prussia
- Celestial globe signed Mattheus Seutter made in Augsburg circa 1710
- Large universal equinoctial ring signed George Adams dated 1773
- Photos of our new stand at the TEFAF !
- Ceremonial narwhal lance with coat of arms made at the 18th/19th century
- Cane with handle in ivory on the theme of the skull and the snake
- A small architect travel necessaire in gold made in England circa 1750/1770
- Painter gadget cane all complete made circa 1900
- Universal octogonal sundial signed Johann Melchior Hager made circa 1690
- A pair of terrestrial and celestial globes by Robert de Vaugondy dated 1763
- Sector compass forming a caliber signed Johannes Maccarius dated 1691
- Cane in massive tortoise shell representing a bird's head
- Microscope Marie type made in Paris circa 1745
- Reverse tapered telescope made in England circa 1680 / 1690
- Extraordinary cheroot of 43,5 cm long all in amber
- Sundial attributed to Johann Gottfried Zimmer
- Exhibition book "Cadrans solaires / Sundials"
- Exhibition "Memories of Opiums" in Paris
- Antique spyglass signed J. Field Cornhill London
- Three 16th century compendiums...
- A tryptich Nuremberg sundial made by Tucher
- Antique unusual astrolabe in wood made circa 1633