Harry Williams-Bulkeley joined Christie’s in 1990 and has led the International Silver Department since 2016. Based in London he oversees the sales of silver and top Judaica objects in London, Paris and New York. A highlight for him was the sale of the exquisite German bessamim or spice tower to a leading Judaica collector in the London Collector sale in 2020. Another great work he has handled on a number of occasions is the Rothschild Torah ark, which he first saw on a country valuation in the mid 1990s. It was later sold in Christie’s Geneva in 1997 only to return the market in 2014 when it sold in Christie’s New York for a landmark price of over $1.5 million. He has most recently overseen the sale of the Bayreuth Collection in London.

Eugenio Donadoni joined Christie’s in 2010, where he leads the manuscripts team with responsibility for the appraisal, researching, cataloguing and marketing of medieval and renaissance and earlier western manuscripts worldwide. Born in Florence and raised in Naples, he holds a Masters and a doctorate from Oxford University. Auction highlights include the sale of the Rothschild Prayerbook ($13.6m, the world record at auction for an illuminated manuscript, January 2014); the Collection of Elaine and Alexandre Rosenberg ($12.4m, 2021); and the ‘History of Western Script’, which included important Judaica manuscripts, among which a fragment from the Cairo Genizah of one of the earliest Hebrew biblical codices of the 9th or 10th century and leaves from one of the earliest surviving Hebrew Bible manuscripts, with the Targum, in codex form. In 2012 he oversaw the sale of a splendid 15th-century Mahzor, illuminated by Boccardino il Vecchio (1.9m euro). Eugenio is one of Christie’s international auctioneers, and takes all of the London department’s auctions.