Asian works of art and ethnografica proved popular and Ben Janssens Oriental Art of London sold more than 30 pieces to collectors at the private view. These included a limestone torso of a Buddha, dating from 6th century China, for a price in the region of €90,000 and a jade Mughal-style perfumer made in China in the 18th century for about €80,000. Vanderven & Vanderven Oriental Art from ‘s-Hertogenbosch sold a large pottery figure of a Lokapala, a guardian in Buddhist mythology. Collectors from France, America and Belgium paid between €30,000 and €100,000 for four wooden Igbo statues from Nigeria on the stand of Bernard de Grunne Tribal Fine Arts of Brussels. London antiquities dealer Charles Ede Ltd sold a Fayum mummy portrait on wood depicting a wealthy woman wearing pearl earrings and two necklaces. This rare and beautiful Roman piece painted in Egypt in the 2nd century AD was sold to a collector at the private view for a price in the region of €200,000.

In the new TEFAF on Paper section Galerie Johannes Faber from Vienna had a strong start to the Fair selling three important photographs to private collectors. Among these Erwin Blumenfeld's 1938 vintage silver print Nude in the Mirror had an asking price of €38,000 and William-Eugene Smith's 1948 gelatine silver print Walk to Paradise Garden, New York carried a price tag of €28,000. E.H Ariëns-Kappers from Amsterdam sold Le Café Concert, a portfolio of 22 lithographs by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Henri Gabriël Ibels while Day & Faber of London had an early success selling the 17th century Dutch artist Samuel van Hoogstraten's drawing St John the Baptist in Prison Receives Christ's Answer for a five figure sum.

TEFAF Maastricht 2010 A record number of 263 exhibitors from 17 countries are at TEFAF 2010. They are showing some 30,000 works of art and antiques, including paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, furniture, classical antiquities, illuminated manuscripts, jewellery, textiles, porcelain, glass, silver and design. All of these have been rigorously vetted by 26 teams with a total of 168 internationally recognised experts.

AXA Art is the principal sponsor of TEFAF AXA Art's partnership with TEFAF provides an important platform to profile the company's expertise to the art collecting community and to bring attention to subjects of collection management such as the fragility of art objects and important strategies to maintain a collection in optimum condition.

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