5625-11

Containers:

Box SC-07 Box 1, Folder 10, Item SC07.02.3.132

Creator:

Hammer Galleries

Extent:

1 page

Scope and content:

Transcription: [double-headed eagle] PARASOL HANDLE Long parasol handle of spinach jade, gold, and enamel. The smoothly formed top is finished with a wide collar of red and green gold applied with opaque white enamel and red-carnelian champ-leve enamel on a guilloche undersurface. This is rimmed in fluent wreath effect in the characteristically classic manner of its maker, Karl Faberge, eminent court jeweler to Tsars Aleksandr III and Nikolai II of Russia. The object is hallmarked with the Russian initials of one of the master's artist-assistants, Mikhail Perchin; the numeral "56" denoting the Russian equivalent of 14 kt. gold; and the device of the St. Petersburg assay office, crossed anchors and sceptre. Number 5625-11 Mrs. John L. Pratt January 5, 1940 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:

47.20.198

Names:

Hammer Galleries

Places:

New York (N.Y.)

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