598

Containers:

Box SC-07 Box 1, Folder 6, Item SC07.01.5.131

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. #598 Pair of superb Wedgwood medallions, one portraying Czar Nicholas II, the late Czar of Russia, the other, his wife Czarine Alexandra Feodorovna. These rare masterpieces of Wedgwood ware, the greatest of all ceramics, are exquisitely executed in white low relief on a soft green ground. In the perfection of the details and the characterization of the personages represented, they show the painstaking craftsmanship and distinctive elegance of this art. On the back of each of the medallions there is the mark "Wedgwood" and in script "The Czar of Russia" and "The Czarina of Russia", respectively. They were purchased from Madame Anna Viroubova, former lady-in-waiting and personal friend of the Empress Alexandra Feodorovna.

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:

47.20.420, 47.20.421

Names:

Schaffer Collection

Places:

New York (N.Y.)

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