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Bernard Descheemaeker - Works of Art was founded in September 2000 and is specialised in objets d'art from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (c.1150-1650).
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Since starting my business, Bernard Descheemaeker - Works of Art, in September 2000, I have published a total of 16 Newsletters and 8 Catalogues. This is now my 9th catalogue - so my 25th publication in total - and I particularly wanted it to be a publication that is a pleasure to read and a treat for the eyes: what better accompaniment to a fascinating exhibition. In this show and in the accompanying catalogue, I present a selection of 25 recent acquisitions. While the nature of the objects - Masterpieces from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance - is what you have come to expect from me, I hope to be able to surprise you as far as quality and quantity are concerned: They include a Romanesque Sedes Sapientiae, several champlevé enamels, a 14th century ivory mirror, an Eyckian miniature, some highly important Gothic woodcarvings, a diverse collection of Limoges painted enamels, a Holy Family by Gerard Seghers and a unique relief by Albert Jansz. Vinckenbrinck.
This exhibition sale is on view in my Antwerp galleryon Friday 2, Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 March 2012 from 11 a.m.. to 7 p.m. and from Monday 5 till Sunday 18 March 2012, by appointment only.
Earlier this year, two museums each purchased one of the works of art illustrated in my latest catalogue Appraised and Apprized. Works of Art from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (catalogue 8). The Musée des arts anciens du Namurois in Namur (Belgium) acquired a plate representing The Birth of Hercules by Jean Miette (Limoges, c.1550), while the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is the new owner of a Pair of Wall Tiles (Rome, c. 1600).
The tiles feature representations of the dragon and the eagle, both of which are symbols of the Borghese’s, a very well-known and extremely wealthy Roman noble family. Two very similar tiles, albeit of somewhat smaller dimensions, are in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. It is likely that the four tiles belonged to the original décor of de Villa Borghese in Rome, which was replaced in the 18th century by the present neo-classical interior.
The ivory mirror that I presented in my exhibition catalogue Als ic can (January 2010) is currently on loan for a period of five years (2010-2015) to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, owner of its pendant piece. The two halves have not been exhibited together since their separation at the auction of the Frédéric Spitzer collection in 1893.See also: catalogue 5 (page 5)