Michele Beiny is a third generation dealer. Her grandfather, Hanns Weinberg, founded the Antique Porcelain Company in London in 1946 and later opened galleries in New York and Zurich. She started her own business in 1987 in New York, dealing in 18th and 19th century European porcelain and faience, French furniture, objets de vertu, Renaissance jewels, modern sculpture and contemporary jeweled works of art