536, 1936

Containers:

Box SC-07 Box 1, Folder 5, Item SC07.01.5.082

Creator:

Schaffer Collection

Language:

English

Extent:

1 page

Preferred citation:

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

Scope and content:

Transcription: [double-headed eagle] The Schaffer Collection of Russian Imperial Art Treasures ROCKEFELLER CENTER, NEW YORK OCTOBER 29, 1936 #536 Very fine handle of attractive simplicity composed of a beautifully shaped and polished piece of nephrite in a gold mounting. This mount, which forms the connection between the handle proper and the body of the cane is of hand-hammered yellow gold and is bordered at top and bottom with two green gold wreaths. It is the work of the famous Russian artist "Carl Fabergé", court jeweler to the Czar of Russia, who is often termed the "Cellini of the nineteenth century." Originally in the collection of the Czarina Alexandra Feodorovna, wife of Nicholas II, the late Czar of Russia.

MRS. JOHN L. PRATT

Biographical / historical:

American--1

Acquisition information:

Gift of Lillian Thomas Pratt.

Physical description:

Paper

Physical facet:

Sales records

Related material:

47.20.164

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.

Names:

Schaffer Collection

Places:

New York (N.Y.)

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