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Kallos Gallery

London, United Kingdom · founded 2014 · closed 2025

Mayfair dealer in ancient art founded in 2014 by Baron Lorne Thyssen-Bornemisza, chiefly Greek antiquities with a few Cypriot pieces, at TEFAF Maastricht in most years until it closed in late 2025.

About

A Mayfair gallery named for the Greek word for beauty, Kallos Gallery was founded in 2014 by Baron Lorne Thyssen-Bornemisza, a director of its operating company from November 20139,14. According to the gallery, it offered Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Western Asiatic and European works chosen for aesthetic quality; one interview with its first director calls it the only commercial gallery devoted to the ancient Greek world9,18.

Glenn Lacki, who holds an Oxford doctorate in classical languages and literature, directed it in its early years. Madeleine Perridge joined as gallery director in 2016, and Beth Morrow is listed as a director on the 2022 team page4,9,17. The gallery issued catalogues from September 2017 to 2025 and mounted thematic exhibitions including Fragments, Warriors and Warfare, Animals of the Ancient World and The Hellenistic World13. Its exhibition pages record TEFAF Maastricht in 2020 and from 2022 to 2025, TEFAF Online in 2020 and 2021, London Art Week in 2021 and The Treasure House Fair13.

Cypriot pieces were a small part of the stock, and the online archive prints provenances for them. A Black-on-Red bowl of c. 750-600 BC, 29.2 cm across, came from a UK private collection formed since the 1960s, through Bonhams London in November 2001 (lot 1) and Charles Ede in 2002; the gallery compares it with Myres's Cesnola Handbook nos. 860 and 92710. A Bichrome juglet of the same date came from a UK private collection acquired on the London market between the 1970s and 2000, and a Cypro-Geometric III White Painted juglet with trefoil lip from an American collection acquired in the 1960s and 1970s11,12. The archive also lists a Cypro-Archaic II bronze incense-burner stand13.

The Antiques Trade Gazette reported the gallery's closure in December 2025, after about twelve years, and Perridge started her own firm in 20265,8.

The Cypriot collection

Cypriot pottery and bronzes are a small strand of the stock (Black-on-Red, Bichrome and White Painted wares, a bronze incense-burner stand), listed under the heading 'Cypriot' in the online archive; the gallery described itself as dealing in Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Western Asiatic and European antiquities, with Greek material its focus. (2025)

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History

  1. 2002
    Black-on-Red bowl (artwork 599) with Charles Ede Limited, London, after Bonhams London 8 Nov 2001 lot 1; later offered by Kallos (printed provenance).

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  2. August 2013
    Kallos Gallery Limited (company 08633299) incorporated 1 August 2013; Thyssen-Bornemisza appointed director 12 November 2013.

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  3. 2014
    Gallery of ancient art opened in Mayfair, London, by Baron Lorne Thyssen-Bornemisza, with Dr Glenn Lacki as director; Wikipedia and an interview describe it as focused on ancient Greek antiquities. First address Davies Street.

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  4. 2016
    Madeleine Perridge became gallery director; Beth Morrow became company secretary (Lacki resigned as secretary August 2016).

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  5. 2017–2025
    Catalogues posted on the gallery site: September 2017, 2018, Autumn 2019, 2020 no. 2, S21, October 2021, September 2023, Autumn 2024 (no. 19) and 2025. Cypriot numbers not established (PDFs not retrievable).

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  6. 2020
    TEFAF Maastricht 2020 and TEFAF Online 2020 (gallery exhibition pages).

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  7. 2021
    TEFAF Online 2021, Masterpiece Online 2021, London Art Week summer and winter 2021.

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  8. 2022
    TEFAF Maastricht 2022.

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  9. 2023
    TEFAF Maastricht 2023.

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  10. 2024
    TEFAF Maastricht 2024; exhibition 'The Hellenistic World: Alexander the Great and his Influence'.

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  11. 2025
    TEFAF Maastricht 2025, The Treasure House Fair and Frieze Masters (gallery exhibition pages; Frieze also lists the gallery).

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  12. December 2025
    Antiques Trade Gazette reported the gallery closing after about twelve years; Companies House shows Kallos Gallery Limited in liquidation.

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  13. 2026
    Madeleine Perridge started her own firm, Madeleine Perridge Fine Art.

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People

6 people

Staff and members · 6

Objects

Sources

  1. 1.Kallos Gallery (2026). “Cypriot: a large Cypriot Black-on-Red ware pottery, Cypro-Archaic, circa 750-600 BC (artwork 599)”. Online
  2. 2.Kallos Gallery (2019). Autumn catalogue 2019. Online
  3. 3.Kallos Gallery (2026). “About us”. Online
  4. 4.IADAA (2026). “Kallos Gallery (member profile, Madeleine Perridge)”. Online
  5. 5.Antiques Trade Gazette (2025). “Mayfair antiquities dealer Kallos Gallery closes its doors after more than a decade”. Online
  6. 6.Wikipedia (2026). “Kallos Gallery”. Online
  7. 7.Endole (2026). “Kallos Gallery (company record)”. Online
  8. 8.Antiques Trade Gazette (2026). “Perridge builds on Bonhams and Kallos experience to start own firm”. Online
  9. 9.Kallos Gallery (2022). “About us (Wayback capture, 4 Dec 2022): gallery team, founder”. Online
  10. 10.Kallos Gallery (2025). “Artwork 599, Cypriot Black-on-Red bowl: provenance and literature (Wayback capture, 20 Aug 2025)”. Online
  11. 11.Kallos Gallery (2025). “Artwork 255, Cypriot Bichrome ware juglet (Wayback capture)”. Online
  12. 12.Kallos Gallery (2025). “Artwork 3156, Cypriot White Painted ware juglet (Wayback capture)”. Online
  13. 13. (2026). “Wayback capture index of kallosgallery.com/artworks and /exhibitions (URL list: artwork 3273 Cypriot bronze incense burner stand; fair pages 2020-2025)”. Online
  14. 14.Companies House (2026). “Kallos Gallery Limited, company 08633299: officers and status”. Online
  15. 15.BADA (2026). “Kallos Gallery Limited (BADA dealer profile)”. Online
  16. 16.Antiquities Dealers' Association (2026). “Kallos Gallery and Madeleine Perridge (ADA)”. Online
  17. 17.Spear's (2026). “Art collector Lorne Thyssen-Bornemisza on rediscovering antiquity (Spear's)”. Online
  18. 18.ArtJobs (2026). “The only gallery dedicated exclusively to ancient Greek antiquities: interview with Dr Glenn Lacki, Kallos Gallery”. Online