Chinese Art

Over 50 years of experience

Your expert in rare & authentic Chinese art of the highest quality.

The assurance of buying unique pieces.

Valuation, research, consignment or restoration. How can we advise you?

Our expertise and in-depth knowledge, are combined with an exceptionally high-level of research, advice and service. As a small family business, we really believe in the importance of providing a bespoke service with a very personal touch.

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Our latest endeavours

Stay up to date about the newest pieces of Chinese art, exhibitions, collections and other inspiring news about Oriental artworks and our services.

We have selected five objects from our collection, which reflect the season. We hope they will inspire and uplift you and reminding you that art objects make beautiful and personal ‘forever’ gifts!

Published on 12 December 2020 See our Festive Five!

Hilton, Amsterdam

Published on 12 December 2020

Considering the recent developments regarding the Covid regulations in the Netherlands it is with mixed feelings that we have decided to postpone Art Affair until further notice. We hope to welcome you soon and toast together to good health in the New Year.

Amsterdam Art & Antiques Week

Published on 09 September 2020

We are taking up residence in a beautiful canal house with five other dealers, and presenting our Chinese porcelain.

5 Objects in 5 Days!

A Short History of Chinese Ceramics

We live streamed informative 10-15 min masterclasses from our gallery. We had great fun building each set and choosing the objects for the periods we covered (Han, Tang, Ming, Kangxi & 19th century). If you missed them you can now (‘binge’) watch them here!

TEFAF All Access Series

TEFAF and Vanderven Oriental art created this video together to showcase a look inside our gallery for the TEFAF Meet the Experts – All Access series.

Over 50 years of experience

In the last 50 years we have earnt an excellent reputation, on which existing and new clients can rely. Now, with the second generation at the helm, we have built up a broad and varied collection with an extensive and reliable worldwide network in which we source our works. The variety of objects is just immense – which never fails to surprise and encourage us. .

About our history

TEFAF Maastricht Virtual Tour

If you did not have a chance to visit our stand during TEFAF, let us guide you through it with a virtual tour. Follow the link below to start your virtual experience!

Visit virtually our stand!

With great pleasure, we present you our 2020 catalogue Sancai – Three Colours! It is a celebration of Chinese ceramics that have a recognisable decoration in mainly three colours: green, brown and or amber with uncoloured areas in white. Though these are the main colours in this palette, it may encompass other colours as well. We have chosen this particular subject as it spans a long period of Chinese ceramic history. This well known romatich poet named Li Bai is a great example of sancai, three colours!

Eight Magazine 'Living with Chinese Art'

This is our first edition of our magazine Eight – Living With Chinese Art. With this magazine we aim to show the world how beautiful and accessible Chinese art can be and how well it works as part of an interior. Inspiration was also the key word, when we were deciding what content to include within the pages. There are a monumental amount of things we can get excited about in our world, so making a selection was not easy. Firstly we opted to show our objects in three completely different settings, classic as well as modern, which we think truly reflects the versatility of Chinese works of art. We hope that you will enjoy reading the magazine, as much as we did making it. Be inspired by the beautiful images, interesting people and through them enter our world!

Read our Magazine here!