477

Containers:

Box SC-07 Box 1, Folder 5, Item SC07.01.5.078

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 OCTOBER 29, 1936 #477 Small handle of exquisite delicacy and refinement composed in its miniature dimensions of a "T"-shaped piece of rock crystal set in a gold mounting finely bordered with a bead edge of yellow gold. Between these borders in incredibly small scale, the gold is chased into a design of waving lines, enameled in light blue and set with three rows of diamonds alternately placed. This is a specimen typical of the unsurpassed craftsmanship of "Carl Fabergé", and worthy of the most discriminating taste. Originally in the collection of Czarina Alexandra Feodorovna, wife of Nicholas II, the late Czar of Russia.

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:

47.20.177

Names:

Schaffer Collection

Places:

New York (N.Y.)

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