Established in 1863 as Münzhandlung Cahn in Frankfurt, Gallery Cahn in Basel continues a proud family tradition into its fourth generation. As one of the oldest businesses in the archaeology trade, the company is now directed by the classical archaeologist Jean-David Cahn, a former Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford. Having served as an expert evaluator for cultural administrations and as an expert for the Council of Europe in Strasbourg for several years, he is also a founding member of the International Association of Dealers in Ancient Art (IADAA), as well as a member of the Swiss Art Dealers Association (VSAK) and the Syndicat National des Antiquaires (SNA).

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The gallery’s extensive range of artworks includes sculptures, figurines, black- and red-figured vases, glass, jewellery, and coins. The gallery specializes in Ancient Greek, Etruscan, and Roman art while also offering a wide selection of prehistoric European objects. In addition to conducting rigorous scholarly research on each individual object, Gallery Cahn places particular emphasis on provenance, employing a dedicated specialist for this purpose. In this regard, the gallery is privileged to reconstruct lost provenances thanks to more than 10,000 negatives by the photographer Dieter Widmer, as well as surviving archival material dating back to 1939.

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Gallery Cahn has been exhibiting at TEFAF Maastricht since 1992 and has helped to develop the Archaeology section within the Antiquities department. The gallery has participated in annual international art fairs, including FAB Paris, Frieze Masters London, and, more recently, MAZE Art Gstaad and St. Moritz, as well as The Winter Show in New York. Its clientele includes private collectors worldwide, as well as major international museums such as the Louvre Museum and the Glyptothek in Munich, among others.