- The laboratory enjoys a perfect independence and a complete objectivity in its judgments
- The only European laboratory to be managed by an expert agreed by a national Chamber of Art Experts and, particularly, by the Belgian Chamber of Experts in Charge of Legal Missions and Arbitration
- The only Belgian thermoluminescence dating laboratory turned essentially towards private customers but disposing of a public status
- The first laboratory having performed metallographic examinations with a view to authenticate bronze objects (since 1975)
The oldest European laboratory providing private customers with all kinds of scientific tests
- The B.A.L. does not interfere in any commercial arrangement
- The B.A.L. is putting forward the quality of the scientific work and not the quantity of tests carried out
- All objects appraised by the Brussels Art Laboratory can be submitted to a patented marking
- Radiocarbon dating (C-14)
- The laboratory is being distinguished by the rapidity of its services
- The laboratory delivers a certificate whether the studied object is genuine or false thus allowing the buyer of a fake to round on his supplier
- The sampling is always done by an art expert
- 45 years of experience in the authentication of works of art from all origins and periods
- Analysis of paintings through scientific methods
- Expertise of all kinds of materials : ceramics, woods, paintings, bones, sandstones, stones, glasses, marbles, textiles…
- The Brussels Art Laboratory proposes an alternative (surface examination with a binocular microscope) to the thermoluminescence test (based on the evaluation of the gamma ray’s dose received by the object) which reliability is not clear anymore. In a rather near future, the B.A.L. will be equipped with a brand new thermoluminescence system based not on the gamma radiation but on the alpha radiation. This equipment will provide us with results that are unforgeable by artificial irradiation.
- Expertise certificates are unalterable and very well-produced
