Molly Morse Limmer
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Since joining the Antiquities department in 1997, Molly Morse Limmer has played a pivotal role in the ever growing success of Christie's Antiquities sales in New York. She was promoted to Specialist Head of the Department in New York in April 2010.
Working closely with the international department head, Ms. Morse Limmer has facilitated several of the department’s world auction records for ancient objects including: $2,816,000 for an Egyptian sculpture for an Old Kingdom group statue of Ka-Nefer and his family (December 2005); $1,808,000 for an Anatolian marble female idol of Kiliya type (June 2005); $1,766,000 for an Attic red-figured kylix attributed to Douris as Painter and to Python as Potter (June 2000); and the stunning $16,882,500 achieved for the Cycladic Marble Reclining Female Figure attributed to the Schuster Master (December 2010). She has been a Christie’s auctioneer since 2004, presiding on the podium for many of the stellar prices mentioned above.
Ms. Morse Limmer holds an M.A. in Greek and Roman art from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London and a B.A. (with honors) in Classics and Art History from Brown University. She studied at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome. Her graduate thesis, The Evolution of an Early Christian Iconography: The Sacrifice of Isaac in the Catacombs of Rome, explored the iconography of this biblical theme in its early Christian context.
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