Vase

Containers:

Box SC-07 Box 1, Folder 9, Item SC07.02.3.118

Creator:

Hammer Galleries

Extent:

1 page

Scope and content:

Transcription: [double-headed eagle] VASE Small, oval vase carved in brown and white veined Ural agate. The bowl is separated from the skirted foot by a band of finely matched turquoise set between two fillets of repousse [sic] gold. This exquisitely graceful object was made in the Imperial Grinding Factory in Peterhof. This factory was owned and operated exclusively by the court. From the quarters of Tsarina Aleksandra Feodorovna in the Aleksandr Palace, Tsarskoye Selo. Mrs. John L. Pratt October 2, 1939 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:

47.20.289

Names:

Hammer Galleries

Places:

New York (N.Y.)

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