Belgium

Top prices set for majolica by the French Massier factory at auction in Belgium

Antwerp dealership Galerie Lowet de Wotrenge has made two sales to international institutions.

A summary of news and events from around the trade including an Antwerp dealer's upcoming show focusing on the Flemish artist Cornelis Schut (1597-1655).

Agnews has launched a new works-on-paper business in Brussels.

Items sold at auction show how Jesuit expertise helped China to gain technological skill for enamelling

The 68th edition of the BRAFA Art Fair closed its doors to the public on February 5 with 65,000 visitors having passed through its doors, writes Anne Crane.

A large and highly decorated processional cross, 18 x 10in (45 x 25cm), from 13th century Limoges is among the highlights in Bernard Descheemaeker’s exhibition and latest catalogue.

The BRAFA fair this year – and several of its exhibitors – has adopted the city’s theme for 2023

This head of Buddha Sakyamuni from Thailand, c.1500, is among the offerings from Marcel Nies’ latest show and catalogue on Asian sculpture.

BRAFA Art Fair in Brussels has announced its dates for the 2023 edition.

BRAFA’s new Expo base hailed as a success as Belgian fair returns to face-to-face business

From mid-June Brussels will be a hive of activity on the art and antiques front with plenty on offer to interest residents and draw visitors to the city.

With Brussels’ major art and antiques fair BRAFA postponed from its usual January slot until June, a group of exhibitors have got together to present a foretaste of the type of pieces on offer later in the year at Brussels Expo in galleries around the city under the title Brussels Art Walk supported by BRAFA.

Certain areas became hubs for the manufacture of toys, such as Nuremberg and Erzgebirge in Germany.

Found covered in grime in a Portuguese auction house, a three quarter-length portrait of a dark-haired lady by Dutch artist Willem Wissing (1655-1709) has been restored to its former glory by a Belgian dealership and the identity of its sitter revealed as a British aristocrat.

La Biennale fair opens in Paris this week at the Grand Palais Ephémère and runs from November 26-December 5.

This bronze head of Buddha, formerly in a private Belgium collection since the 1970s, is priced at £75,000 from Antwerp gallery Marcel Nies Oriental Art.

A rare standing figure from the Yuat River area of Papua New Guinea was the star of the show at a Brussels auction.