2300

Containers:

Box SC-07 Box 1, Folder 6, Item SC07.01.5.150

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 #2300 Unusual flower creation by CARL G. FABERGE, the celebrated Russian Court jeweler. Beautifully conceived and executed, it represents a spray of lilies-of-the-valley [underlined] fashioned of pearls with diamond tips, on a gold stem and with two large leaves of jade. The spray stands in what seems to be a glass of water, but what is actually a rock crystal vase so created as to give the perfect illusion of water. So ingeniously is the entire object executed that it gives a most lifelike effect. One actually feels that the lily-of-the-valley is standing in the water and only on close examination does one realize that the whole is created from gold, pearls, jade, crystal, etc.

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:

47.20.220

Names:

Schaffer Collection

Places:

New York (N.Y.)

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