
Jeanne Sloane
Department Head
New York, Rockefeller Center
Jeanne Sloane is Head of the Silver department and Senior Vice President at Christie’s New York. Before joining Christie’s in 1981, Mrs. Sloane was Curator of Decorative Arts at the Newport Historical Society, home to a collection of early Rhode Island silver. She has published articles for Antiques Magazine, Art & Auction, and several other periodicals. In 1993, she was awarded the Decorative Arts Society’s annual prize for her article on the engraved silver of Joseph Leddel of New York. She has contributed to silver exhibitions at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, and the Bermuda National Gallery, publishing her study on Bermuda Silversmiths in the Journal of the London Silver Society in 2001. She has appeared as a silver appraiser on Public Television’s Antiques Road Show.
At Christie’s, Mrs. Sloane is responsible for new business development, conducting appraisals, identifying antique silver for consignment, and researching silver included in the auctions. Her work has resulted in a number of discoveries, including a ‘lost’ renaissance cup from the Victor Rothschild collection, several unrecorded examples of American Colonial silver, and the first exclusive auction of silver by Georg Jensen, which totaled nearly $9 million in 2005 - a record for any silver auction at Christie’s New York.
She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Art History and American Studies from Brown University and a Master’s degree in the history of decorative arts from the Winterthur Museum, Delaware.