479

Containers:

Box SC-07 Box 1, Folder 5, Item SC07.01.5.079

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 OCTOBER 29, 1936 #479 Particularly beautiful handle, exquisitely wrought and decorated in a most beautiful manner. The handle proper, a piece of rock crystal, is set in a cylindrical gold mounting embellished with various gold and enamel borders. At the top and bottom there are green gold wreaths against a deeper shade of gold. The enameled decoration is formed of three gold bands exquisitely enameled in a light shade of blue. Each one is minutely chased with a scale design which imparts a shimmering quality. Over the central band of a very pale shade of blue, there is a fine gold double wreath. On each side of this middle portion two rows of pearls enhance the superlative quality of this "Fabergé" creation. 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:

47.20.196

Names:

Schaffer Collection

Places:

New York (N.Y.)

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