Chinese Export

Contact

• London

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    Kate Hunt

    Director, Head of Sale, Chinese Works of Art

    Kate Hunt

    Director, Head of Sale, Chinese Works of Art

    khunt@christies.com+44 (0) 20 7752 3389

    DATE JOINED CHRISTIE’S: February 2012
    
    BASED IN: London
    
    AREAS OF SPECIALTY: Chinese ceramics, works of art and textiles
    
    NOTABLE PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Spink & Son Ltd, Chinese dealer; Asian art journalist

• New York

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    Carleigh Queenth

    Specialist

    Carleigh Queenth

    Specialist

    cqueenth@christies.com

    Carleigh Queenth is Vice President, Specialist Head of the European Ceramics and Glass department in New York. She began at Christie's in 2004 and specializes in 18th and 19th century European ceramics and Chinese export art. During her tenure she has worked closely on the collection sales of Leo Hodroff, Maria Felix, Benjamin F. Edwards, Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, Syd Levethan, Richard Melon Scaife, President Ronald Reagan and David and Peggy Rockefeller among others. She is a board member of the American Ceramic Circle, member of the French Porcelain Society and the Majolica International Society and an Attingham Summer School alumna.
    
    Carleigh graduated magna cum laude from New York University with the individualized major of Art History, Porcelain and Glass. She was the female recipient of the Leo Bronstein Award for distinguished study in the Arts.

• Paris

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    Tiphaine Nicoul

    Head of Sale, Asian Art

    Tiphaine Nicoul

    Head of Sale, Asian Art

    tnicoul@christies.com+33 (0)1 40 76 83 75

    Having graduated in History of Art and Museology from the Ecole du Louvre after a law degree, Tiphaine Nicoul joined Christie’s in 2003. Since then she has developed her department and the success of a number of sales which led to Paris becoming an international market place for Asian art.
    
    Thanks to her eighteen years of experience, she was involved in some of the most remarkable sales at Christie’s. In 2006, she achieved exceptional results with Le banquet de la victoire dans les jardins de l’Ouest by Zhang Tingyan and Zhan Kun (€6,000,000). In 2007, she was in charge of the sale of gift bronzes and Chinese enamels from Juan Jose Amezaga’s rare collection (€13,200,000). In 2012, after a bidding war over a unique Guanvin wood sculpture, she realised the highest auction total of the year in France, across all categories (€9,000,000).