665, 1936

Containers:

Box SC-07 Box 1, Folder 5, Item SC07.01.5.084

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 #665 An exceptionally fine gold and silver oval miniature icon (panagia), bearing in the center a beautifully painted portrait of the "Madonna and Child" in enamel, and framed with filigree work which is filled with unusually fine shaded enamel, showing tulips and other flowers, in the center of each of which topazes alternate with garnets. The icon is surmounted by a large crown which is studded with a topaz, a garnet and two aquamarines. Made by the House of Nemirova Kolodrina (By Appointment to the Russian Royal Family). Moscow. From the collection of 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:

47.20.27

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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