about AQ

AFRICAN QUINTESSENCE

A gallery of the art of Africans

ABOUT AFRICAN QUINTESSENCE

African Quintessence is a full service gallery that offers

high quality traditional African art. We serve casual

collectors and serious connoisseurs with equal enthusiasm.

All our pieces are very carefully selected by experienced,

professional experts. We strive not so much to offer mere

relics or ritual implements, just because they are aged, but

art forms originally created as much for function as

beauty. When necessary, we employ the servicesof competent laboratories for radio

carbon and /or thermoluminescence dating as well as metallurgist for materials characterization and particles identification

analysis.

African Quintessence also offers full profressional appraisal services. Our gallery Director and senior appraiser holds

university degrees, including Honors in African Art and History, and is accredited by the International Society of Appraisers.

Our Commitment

Our commitment to deal in only the best has narrowed our focus to mostly Benin antiquities, which we firmly believe are the

"blue chips" or the closest to elite brands of African art. We also offer distinctive pieces of art from all parts of Africa from

time to time. We are getting ready to publish a book on the royal art and artsisans of Benin.