The organizer of the Paris Biennale of Antiques is the Syndicat National des Antiquaires (SNA) of France which, traditionally, has always adhered to a strict and professional commitment towards exhibitors.
Therefore, every exhibition is subject to the strict regulations of the committee responsible for monitoring the exhibited items, aiming to ensure that each artifact is of impeccable standard.
Of course, in such a venue, the exhibits from various companies are naturally the crème de la crème, which is why after a whole day's time, there were only two or three items found to be amiss.
One of them was an antique claimed to be made of legally obtained ivory, but it was identified that the ivory clearly was hunted and processed after the international ban was imposed, leading to its immediate removal from the cabinet and a call to the police.
