482

Containers:

Box SC-07 Box 1, Folder 5, Item SC07.01.5.059

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 9, 1936 #482 Very fine parasol handle made of nephrite, in the shape of a duck's head, with rubies for eyes and a most unusual green enamel band. At the base it is mounted in gold and set with two rows of diamonds. It is exceptionally finely enameled in translucent pink, giving the effect of trees in sunshine, which is enclosed in borders of white matte enamel, with translucent green enamel dots completing the design. It is the creation of the famous Russian court jeweler "Carl Fabergé", who has so justly been termed the "Cellini of the nineteenth century." Originally in 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:

47.20.169

Names:

Schaffer Collection

Places:

New York (N.Y.)

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