Christoph Bacher Archäologie Ancient Art

A journalist from the editorial board of the Austrian magazine NEWS founded this Vienna gallery in 2015. Christoph Bacher studied history in Vienna and worked almost twenty years in journalism¹. According to the gallery's own history page, he left in February 2015, opened a showroom that year and added a second, of 170 square metres, in April 2017; the page names Rosalynn Phoa-Bacher as co-founder⁴. The gallery deals in ancient art dated from 6000 BC to AD 600, and it is listed as a member of IADAA, of CINOA and of the Austrian Wirtschaftskammer^1,5.

It sorts its stock into Egypt, Greece, the Ancient Near East, Europe, the Roman Empire, Italy and Etruria, ancient glass and Pre-Columbian art. Cyprus has no category of its own, but a search of the gallery's site for "Cypriot" returns at least ten listings: White Painted oinochoe, jug and askos forms, a Black Polished flask, a Bichrome oinochoe, a Red Polished bowl, a large hydria and Archaic terracottas including a chariot group, a goddess bust and a tambourine player².

The listings print provenances. A Red Polished bowl dated 2500 to 2000 BCE came from Charles Ede Ltd in London before 1989, then passed to the Teichner collection in Connecticut and through a New York auction in 2015³. A beak-spouted jug carries the history of the Rudeck collection, bought from the Vienna dealer Gerhard Herinek in 1991, and a White Painted oinochoe dated 750 to 600 BCE is listed with the Cran collection and a Bonhams sale of 2012². The large hydria comes from the collection of Jean Pouilloux, and the goddess bust is recorded as passing through Chicago in 1986^2,6. A terracotta chariot offered at EUR 6,800 has a 2010 Christie's London lot in its history. A Bichrome oinochoe offered at EUR 6,000 is said to have come from a New York collection in the 1960s, with a Cypriot lead export seal².