93

Containers:

Binder SC-07 Binder 1, Page Unknown, Item SC07.01.4.016

Creator:

Schaffer Collection

Extent:

1 item

Scope and content:

Transcription: [double-headed eagle] #93 Gold and silver unusually fine icon portraying "Madonna and Child" and 9 saints in miniature as follows: 1 - St. Peter – Metropolitan of Moscow 2 – St. Alexis - " " " 3 – St. Ivann - " " " 4 - St. Prince Michael 5 – St. Boyard Theodor 6 – St. Dimitry the Blessed 7 – St. Vasily the Blessed (In whose name the famous church in Moscow was built by Ivann the Terrible. The church upon completion was so beautiful, that the Czar, fearing that it might be duplicated, had the architect blinded.) 8 – St. Michael the Martyr 9 – St. Ivann the Clairvoyant In a most unusually fine hand-made frame with beautiful enamel inlay and various Ural stones. It also bears a nameplate which reads as follows: "To His Imperial Highness Czarevitch and Grand Duke Alexis Nicholaievitch from the Nobility of Nijni Novgorod." It was made by "Chlebnikoff" (By Appointment to the Russian Royal family.) It is from the bedroom of the Czarevitch at the Alexandrovsky Palace at Tsarskoye Selo, where it was catalogued under number 70. $3,500.00

Language:

English

Acquisition information:

Gift of Lillian Thomas Pratt.

Biographical / historical:

American--1

Physical description:

Paper

Physical facet:

Price tags

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:

47.20.13

Names:

Schaffer Collection

Places:

New York (N.Y.)

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