RH-5214/3, 1938

Containers:

Box SC-07 Box 1, Folder 9, Item SC07.02.3.069

Creator:

Hammer Galleries

Extent:

1 page

Scope and content:

Transcription: [double-headed eagle] Article No. RH-5214/3 Easter egg of green quartzite, varicolored gold and rock crystal, suspended from a chain of gold. A band of cut rock cyrstal [sic], bordered with narrow rims of gold, encircles the egg, separating the top from the lower portion. The top is surmounted with a wheel device decoratively worked in red and green gold, whose apex is a small Empirean [sic] wreath of laurel. A convex form of gold, delicately engraved in a wreath design covers the base. It was created by the celebrated Russian court jeweler to Nicholai II and Alexander III, Carl Faberge. From the apartments of Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna, in the Alexander Palace, Tsarskoye Selo.

Mrs. J. L. Pratt January 27, 1938

FROM THE HAMMER COLLECTION – 682 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK

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, Hammer Galleries, Fifth Avenue

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

Related material:

47.20.41

Names:

Hammer Galleries

Places:

New York (N.Y.)

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