1097

Containers:

Box SC-07 Box 1, Folder 5, Item SC07.01.5.054

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 April 2, 1936 #1097 Exceptionally fine gold and silver picture frame of outstanding beauty. It is enameled over a chased (guilloche) pattern in translucent pink, the edges bordered with finely carved wreath design terminated with rosettes. The small oval opening for the picture, attached at the top to swags of laurel leaves, is bordered with pearls. It is signed by "Carl Faberge[sic]", the celebrated court jeweler to the Czar of Russia, and who has so often been referred to as the "Cellini of the nineteenth century." 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:

47.20.313

Names:

Schaffer Collection

Places:

New York (N.Y.)

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