Jeffrey Lassaline is the specialist in charge of the Silver and Objects of Vertu department. Having joined Tennants in 2019, he brought with him a wealth of experience working with Fine and Decorative Arts.
After beginning his career working in a museum in Canada, Jeffrey moved to London in 2000 to take up the post of Head of the Silver Department at Christie’s South Kensington. In 2005 Jeffrey moved to Christie’s main salerooms in King Street to become Senior Silver Specialist and Director. During nearly 20 years working at Christie’s, most recently as Consultant Senior Specialist, Jeffrey was involved in many landmark sales, such as the Benson Collection of Early Spoons in 2013 in which the sold lots realised over £750,000, more than doubling their low auction estimate. Individual highlights he has handled include the Givenchy Royal Hanover Chandelier, which sold for £5.75m in 2011, the Fabergé Rothschild Egg, which sold for almost £8.9m in 2007 and the Benson Wodewose spoon of circa 1440, formerly the property of Sir Arthur Evans, the excavator of the palace of Knossos, which sold for almost £86,000 in the sale of the Benson Collection in 2013.
Since joining Tennants, Jeffrey has built the Silver and Objects of Vertu department into one of the company’s largest departments and has overseen many noteworthy sales, mostly recently handling the silver from Corby Castle over several sales in early 2026. The collection comprised almost 600 lots of silver which together sold for over £1m. Other highlights were the sale of Collection of the Late Anthony Phillips, former International Head of the Christie’s silver department and silver and objects of vertu from Swinton Park which more than doubled their low estimate, realising over £200,000, in 2024.
Jeffrey has a passion for silver and works to promote contemporary goldsmiths and silversmiths and support the industry. Jeffrey is Chair of Trustees of the Hand Engravers Association of Great Britain, a Freeman of both the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths and the City of London, a member of the Silver Society and a founding member of the Silver Society of Canada.
