H 4108

Containers:

Box SC-07 Box 1, Folder 8, Item SC07.02.3.007

Creator:

Hammer Galleries

Extent:

1 page

Scope and content:

Transcription: [double-headed eagle] RUSSIAN IMPERIAL EXHIBIT January 26, 1933 Article No. H 4108 Photograph in a silver frame of Serge Alexandrovitch, who was the brother of Alexander III, and his wife, Elizaveta Feodorovna, who was the sister of Czarina Alexandra. On one side is engraved a crown and the inscription: "Serge;" on the other side, a crown and the inscription: "Elizaveta." At the bottom, the dates "1891-1904;" at the top, a small crown and an enamel plaque of St. George Slaying the Dragon. Made by Faberge, the famous jeweler of the last Court of the Romanoffs.

From the Collection in the Winter Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Mrs. John L. Pratt Chatham Fredericksburg, Virginia

From the Hammer Collection – Three East Fifty-second Street, New York, N. Y.

Language:

English

Acquisition information:

Gift of Lillian Thomas Pratt.

Biographical / historical:

American--1

Physical description:

Paper

Physical facet:

Sales records

Other descriptive data:

Hammer Collection, Russian Imperial Exhibit, E. 52nd Street

Digitization of the Lillian Thomas Pratt Archives has been made possible by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Related material:

47.20.355

Names:

Hammer Galleries

Places:

New York (N.Y.)

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