1749

Containers:

Box SC-07 Box 1, Folder 6, Item SC07.01.5.141

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

#1749 Umbrella handle in the form of an eagle's head, by CARL G. FABERGE, the celebrated Russian Court jeweler. The head is carved in a highly stylised (sic) manner out of a light green jade, with the eyes fashioned of two large beautiful red Ural stones mounted in gold. The white translucent enamel of the mounting is the type which Fabergé perfected and its sheen is further heightened by the guilloche under-surface. At the top and bottom it is bounded by bands of wreaths in vari-colored gold. From the personal belongings 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:

47.20.163

Names:

Schaffer Collection

Places:

New York (N.Y.)

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