315, 1934

Containers:
Box SC-07 Box 1, Folder 5, Item SC07.01.5.007
Creator:
Schaffer Collection
Extent:
1 page
Scope and content:

Transcription: [double-headed eagle] The Schaffer Collection of Russian Imperial Art Treasures Rockefeller Center, New York Easter, 1934 #315. Porcelain Easter egg, bearing on one side the gold monogram and crown of Czarina Alexandra Feodorovna, wife of Nicholas II, the late Czar of Russia, and on the other, a small red cross. It was the custom of the Czarina to present these eggs to wounded officers, while she served as a nurse during the World War, as a token of Easter greetings. From the Winter Palace.

Mrs. John L. Pratt

Language:
English
Acquisition information:
Gift of Lillian Thomas Pratt.
Biographical / historical:

American--1

Physical description:
Paper
Physical facet:
Sales records
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:

47.20.39

Access and use

Location of collection:
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
VMFA Archives
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Margaret R. and Robert M. Freeman Library
200 N. Arthur Ashe Boulevard
Richmond, VA 23220-4007
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Roxanne Winfield
Phone: (804) 340-1497
Phone: (804) 340-1495
Terms of access:

No Copyright - United States: http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en

Parent restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Digitization of the collection has been made possible by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The digital collection can be accessed through the VMFA Collections Search website.

Parent terms of access:
No Copyright - United States: http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en
Preferred citation:

Lillian Thomas Pratt Personal Papers (SC-07). VMFA Archives, Richmond, Virginia.