Another returning BRAFA exhibitor is the Paris dealer Xavier Eckhout, who specialises in animalier sculpture from 1880- 1950. He has stood at the fair for 10 years and his display nearly always includes a selection of bronzes from the Antwerp school, based around Rembrandt Bugatti, and often focused on exotic animals at the Antwerp Zoo.
Pictured below is one of them, a model of an ostrich by Thierry van Ryswick signed and inscribed 1ière epreuve (first proof) with a Susse Frères foundry mark.