Sandhya Jain-Patel is an expert in the care and collection of fine art, and in appraising fine art. Mrs. Jain-Patel was the Head of the Indian, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian Art Department at Christie's New York, where under her guidance, her team were responsible for appraising, marketing and selling fine art from the Gandharan period up to the early 20th century. During her tenure at Christie’s, the department set multi-million dollar records across the category, and handled some of the most important collections, including the Pal Family Collection, and the James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection. Mrs. Jain-Patel was instrumental in identifying a lost Indian court painting by Nainsukh of Guler which sold for $1.6 million in 2008, in bringing the Doris Wiener Collection to auction in March 2012 which achieved $12.7 million, and in winning the Collection of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, which made $134 million in March 2015.

As part of her work at Christie’s, Sandhya identified and repatriated a very important Khmer sculpture to Cambodia. She and her colleagues were guests of the Ministry of Culture while in Cambodia; these are photos from their trip.