893

Containers:

Box SC-07 Box 1, Folder 5, Item SC07.01.5.035

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 September 30, 1935 #893 Small round gold picture frame of more than ordinary beauty and quality by "Carl Fabergé", celebrated court jeweler to the Russian Imperial family. The ground of this piece chased with a shimmering pattern, is enameled translucent white and bordered with a minutely detailed wreath design in green gold on the outside. The inside is bordered with pearls while the enameled surface is painted with conventionalized trees. The back is of ivory, and it contains a photograph of Czarevitch Alexei Nicholaievitch, son and heir apparent of Nicholas II, the late Czar of Russia. From the Alexander Palace at Tsarskoye Selo.

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:

47.20.336

Names:

Schaffer Collection

Places:

New York (N.Y.)

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