Chinese Export

Christie’s sales of Chinese Export Art feature the finest porcelain, paintings and enamels made in China for the West, offering everything from small connoisseur objects to important dinner services and monumental port paintings.

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Our specialists are currently preparing our next Chinese Export auctions. In the meantime, browse results from past auctions.

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Kate Hunt
Director, Head of Sale, Chinese Works of Art
+44 (0) 20 7752 3389
khunt@christies.com
London
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
Carleigh Queenth
Specialist, Chinese Export
cqueenth@christies.com
New York
Carleigh Queenth began at Christie’s in 2004 and is Vice President, Head of the European Ceramics and Glass and Chinese Export Art in New York, and co-head of the Exceptional auction. 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, David and Peggy Rockefeller, and Ann and Gordon Getty among others. She is a board member of the American Ceramic Circle, member of the French Porcelain Society and an Attingham Summer School and Royal Collection Studies alumna.
Tiphaine Nicoul
Head of Sale, Asian Art
+33 (0)1 40 76 83 75
tnicoul@christies.com
Paris
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 twenty 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).