481

Containers:

Box SC-07 Box 1, Folder 5, Item SC07.01.5.081

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 #481 Very fine handle made of nephrite of a pale golden greenish shade, symmetrically curved and mounted in brilliantly enameled gold. The main part of the mounting is chased with a design of many short curves and enameled raspberry red. Curving around it in a ribbon effect there are four bands of leaves exquisitely worked in two shades of gold, namely, yellow gold and green gold. Above and below, there are two rows of diamonds. It is a good example of the fine workmanship of the celebrated court jeweler "Carl Fabergé". 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:

47.20.181

Names:

Schaffer Collection

Places:

New York (N.Y.)

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