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Paris Street; Rainy Day, Gustave Caillebotte, 1877

Every piece is a tessera. Together, a whole.

Galleries and antique dealers across Spain. What links them is not the goods —they do not sell the same things, nor do the same people look for them— but the standard: identified professional, documented piece and verifiable provenance.

Art and antiques with documented provenance

L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Marie Julien, 1848–1911), Vincent van Gogh, 1888–89
Art Galleries

Avant-garde, contemporary and works on paper. Old masters too.

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Settee (one of a pair) (part of a set), Johann Michael Bauer, ca. 1763–64
Object Antique dealers

Furniture, clocks, silver and ceramics with verifiable provenance.

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Two trades, one standard

L’art i l’antiguitat es venen a Espanya en dos mons que gairebé no es parlen. En un hi ha galeries: representen artistes, munten exposicions i venen obra. En l’altre, antiquaris: compren objecte, l’estudien i el tornen a vendre. Un directori que els barreja no ajuda ningú, perquè qui busca una cosa no busca l’altra.

Here they are kept apart, each with its own section, vocabulary and text. What they share is the standard: every listing is checked one by one and records where its information came from, no text or photographs are copied from anyone else’s website, and the order they appear in is not for sale. It is written and dated in the pact.

The second thing you will find are the buying guides: what separates a good piece from an ordinary one, what documentation you can ask the seller for, and what price bracket it moves in. They are written to be read with the piece in front of you, not to illustrate.

You cannot buy here yet —the marketplace opens in 2027—, so in the meantime this serves what it serves for: arriving knowing what to ask the house that will sell you the piece.

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What is bought

All categories
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Old master paintings

Oil, tempera and panel from before the twentieth century: altarpiece, portrait and landscape.Galleries02

Antique clocks and watches

Wall, longcase, table and pocket. Movements that are still expected to keep time.Antique dealers03

Antique jewellery

Period rings, brooches and cameos, in gold, silver and hand-worked stones.Galleries and antique dealers04

Antique sculpture

Busts and relief in bronze, marble, terracotta and polychrome wood.Galleries05

Prints and drawings

Engraving, lithograph, drawing and watercolour: works on paper, almost always in edition.Galleries06

Antique furniture

Chests of drawers, coffers, tables and cabinets in solid wood, from before the production line.Antique dealers07

Modern and contemporary art

Painting, sculpture and works on paper from the twentieth century and today: from the historical avant-garde to the living artist.Galleries08

Ceramics and porcelain

European earthenware and porcelain, from Meissen and Sèvres to Manises, Talavera and Sargadelos.Antique dealers09

Silver and metalware

Hallmarked silver, goldsmiths’ work, ormolu, copper and brass, for the table and for the altar.Antique dealers
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Who sells it

See the directory
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Tools

All of them
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Fairs

The calendar
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In the journal

All of them
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Want to know what we are building?

Teselara is today a directory of Spanish galleries and antique dealers with buying guides, and in 2027 the marketplace opens. If that interests you —to buy, to sell, or because you work in the trade— tell us and we will explain where it is going.

  • We write when there is something to show, not before
  • We reply within two or three working days
  • Unsubscribing is replying to the email

If you are after something else, here is the contact page →

Version of 8 August 2026.

Who handles your data. Teselara. You can write to us through any of the forms on this site to exercise the rights listed below.

What data. What you write: name, email address, telephone if you leave it, and the text of your message. We also store the date, your IP address and the browser you sent the form from, because they are the only evidence of when it was sent and that a person sent it.

What for. Only to reply to you and to do what you ask. Specifically:

- Contact. To answer what you ask. - Claiming a listing. To check that you are the owner of the business and to correct, update or remove the listing. - Interest in the 2027 marketplace. To let you know when it opens and to ask the questions needed to prepare for it. It is not a registration and not a commitment: neither yours nor ours.

What we do NOT do with it. We do not pass it on to anybody. We do not use it to send you anything you have not asked for. We do not put it on any mailing list. If you write to claim a listing, that email address is used for that and not to tell you about something else.

How long we keep it. The message and the reply are kept for as long as they may be needed to evidence what was asked and what was done, and at most three years from the closing of the matter. In a listing claim this matters: the proof that you asked us to remove your data is precisely what has to be kept in order to show that it was removed.

Legal basis. Your consent, which you give by ticking the box and can withdraw whenever you want, and our legitimate interest in being able to show how we dealt with a claim.

Your rights. You can ask us to give you access to your data, correct it, delete it, restrict its use, object to it or take it with you. It is done by writing, without justifying the reason and at no cost. You can also complain to the Spanish Data Protection Agency.

One more thing, because it is the one usually missing. Removing a listing from the directory does not require giving us explanations, nor talking to anybody on the telephone, nor proving anything beyond the business being yours. You ask, and it is done.

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Frequently asked

Can I buy here?
Not yet. Teselara is today a directory of galleries and antique dealers and a collection of buying guides. The marketplace opens in 2027, and until then what is here serves to get you to the house that will sell you the piece better prepared.
What is the difference between a gallery and an antique dealer?
What they sell and how. A gallery works with art and, in the primary market, does not buy it: it represents the artist and takes a commission. An antique dealer buys objects and resells them, and their craft is the find and knowing what they have. They are two different businesses, with different documentation, which is why they have separate sections here.
How does a business get into the directory?
We add it ourselves from public sources, and every listing records the address its information came from so it can be checked. We copy no text and no photographs from anyone else’s website. If you are the owner, you can claim the listing, correct it or ask us to take it down.
Can anyone pay to appear, or to appear higher?
No. The order is not for sale: it is the first rule of the pact, published and dated. No house in this directory has paid to be here, and none can pay to move ahead of another.
Why do you insist so much on provenance?
Because it answers at once the two questions that decide a purchase: whether the piece is what they say it is, and whether whoever is selling it is entitled to. Almost no chain of owners is complete, and that is normal; what marks out a serious house is that it declares the gaps instead of covering them up.
I have a piece and want to sell it. What do I do?
We do not buy or broker today. The selling page sets out what routes exist, what documentation is worth gathering before you show anything, and what questions to ask so you do not accept the first figure you are given.