1580

Containers:

Box SC-07 Box 1, Folder 6, Item SC07.01.5.105

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 August 18, 1937 #1580 An exceptionally beautiful Easter egg by CARL G. FABERGE [sic], celebrated Russian Court jeweler, executed in solid gold in his French classic style. It follows in technique the French eighteenth century gold snuff boxes with a ground of cobalt blue translucent enamel. Unlike most of FABERGE'S [sic] 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 elaborated by the addition of three bands of white matte enamel dots, one of which in the center row, is a tiny diamond catch. Bears the inscription which may be seen as one opens the egg "Christ Has Risen." From 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:

47.20.128

Names:

Schaffer Collection

Places:

New York (N.Y.)

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