Are you a lover of antiques, student, collector of antiquities, you like bargains and find the rare objects, you want to enrich your knowledge of art history, you are in the mood for easily identifying an era, a style. You want to do business with ?
The training modules for the ancient art invented under the direction of Master Choppin de Janvry, auctioneers in Paris, with thirty years experience, former lecturer at the Ecole du Louvre, Professor at the Training Center of auctioneers, Former Professor at the Ecole d'Art et de Communication de Paris, are suitable for you.

Program and peculiarities of lessons Art antiquity Training

Officer Choppin de Janvry makes you benefit, thanks to a clear, accessible and necessary training, illustrated with pictures in order to:

  • Learn to recognize a period, a style, imitation from genuine
  • Learn how to authenticate a piece of furniture, a piece of silverware, a ceramic...
  • Give the description (age, provenance, technique) of an ancient object
  • evaluate an ancient object

You can download one or several themes: antique furniture, Art nouveau, Art deco, ancient ceramics and old silverware.

Click on the following pages to download them. If you can't see the PDF, download here Acrobat Reader (Free).

You can take the training at your pace choosing one or several themes.

course silverware

French Silverware


42 pages
120 visual aid

course silverware
course furniture

French Furniture


84 pages
290 visual aid

course furniture
course Ceramics

Ceramics


46 pages
140 visual aid

course Ceramics
course Art Nouveau / Art Deco

Art Nouveau /
Art déco

65 pages
210 visual aid

course Art Nouveau / Art Deco

Required level

No matter what is your level, you can follow the training you wish by choosing to download one or more modules among the proposed themes : Antique furniture, Art Nouveau Art Deco, silver and old Ceramics. You are allowed to register at any time for these training modules.

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