1580

Containers:

Binder SC-07 Binder 1, Page Unknown, Item SC07.01.4.038

Creator:

Schaffer Collection

Extent:

1 item

Scope and content:

Transcription: [double-headed eagle] #1580 An exceptionally beautiful Easter egg by CARL G. FABERGE, executed in solid gold in his French classic style. It follows in technique the French 18th century gold snuff boxes with a ground of cobalt translucent enamel. Unlike most of Fabergé's surfaces, the chased (guilloche) pattern also follows the traditional type used on the snuff boxes, and is merely visible as faint rays on the enamel surface. Around the center there is a broad vari-colored gold band carved in a minute serpentine pattern together with leaves and berries enameled red and green, giving the appearance of tiny jewels. On top and bottom of the egg circular caps bear ten-pointed rosettes enameled in green. The three divisions are further enhanced by the addition of 3 bands of white matte enamel dots, one of which in the center row is a tiny diamond catch. As one opens the egg, the inscription may be seen: "Christ is Risen". In the original case bearing the name "Faberge". From the collection of Czarina Alexandra Feodorovna, wife of Nicholas II, the late Czar of Russia. $450.00

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:

47.20.128

Names:

Schaffer Collection

Places:

New York (N.Y.)

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