1078

Containers:

Binder SC-07 Binder 1, Page Unknown, Item SC07.01.4.031

Creator:

Schaffer Collection

Extent:

1 item

Scope and content:

Transcription: [double-headed eagle] #1078 Exceptionally beautiful gold and silver picture frame of most unusual size enameled in translucent sky-blue over a scintillating chased (guilloche) surface. The broad enamel border is framed on the inside by a beadwork edge and on the outside by a delicately chased wreath design. At top laurel leaf festoons of classical inspiration are caught by rosettes and held in the middle by an elaborately wrought bow and ribbon enrichment. [crossed out: The frame contains a photograph portraying Czar Nicholas II and King George V of England, his cousin, and the two heirs to the throne, the Prince of Wales of England and the Czarevitch Alexis of Russia.] The fine craftsmanship displayed in this example typifies the work of Carl G. Faberge, celebrated court Jeweler to the Imperial Russian Family. From the Alexander Palace at Tsarskoye Selo. [$600.00 scratched through] 450 handwritten

Language:

English

Acquisition information:

Gift of Lillian Thomas Pratt.

Biographical / historical:

American--1

Physical description:

Paper

Physical facet:

Price tags

Other descriptive data:

Schaffer Collection, Russian Imperial Art Treasures, Rockefeller Center

Digitization of the Lillian Thomas Pratt Archives has been made possible by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Related material:

47.20.413

Names:

Schaffer Collection

Places:

New York (N.Y.)

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