Jean-David Cahn AG

Galerie Cahn in Basel traces its name to Münzhandlung Cahn, a coin business that according to the gallery began in Frankfurt in 1863; the Basel gallery was founded in 1999 by the fourth generation of the family¹. Jean-David Cahn AG has been entered in the Basel commercial records since 25 June 1999, with Jean-David Cahn on its board⁴. Cahn is described as a classical archaeologist and a founding member of the International Association of Dealers in Ancient Art; he is also a member of the Swiss dealers' association VSAK, and the gallery says it has shown at TEFAF Maastricht since 1992¹.

The stock on the gallery's site is Greek vases, Roman sculpture and bronzes, Celtic, Etruscan and Italic material, glass and prehistoric stone tools². The firm also holds auctions. Its Auction 2, "Kunstwerke der Antike", took place on 21 September 2007 and is cited in the bibliography of Beyond Cyprus⁸.

On 30 November 2020 Cahn Auktionen AG sold "Ancient Artwork from Galerie Cahn", 61 lots chosen by Jean-David Cahn and Ulrike Haase³. Lot 14 was a Cypriot oinochoe of the Cypro-Archaic period, about 725-650 BC, 23.1 cm high, with concentric-circle decoration, estimated at CHF 2,400-3,200. Lot 13 was a terracotta female idol on a round stand, 9.6 cm high, catalogued as Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age, possibly Cypriot, of the 2nd millennium BC³. A further 2020 lot, a Cypriot jug of the 7th-6th century BC, 18.3 cm high, is listed on the auctioneer's LiveAuctioneers page⁷.