5509

Containers:

Box SC-07 Box 1, Folder 10, Item SC07.02.3.136

Creator:

Hammer Galleries

Extent:

1 page

Scope and content:

Transcription: [double-headed eagle] PANSY Beautifully composed spray of pansies, featured in rock crystal, fashioned to represent a small vase filled with water. On a single stem of gold, three branchlets [sic] divide, each topped with a blossom carved in golden-hued and carnelian agate. Petals, engraved with simulated veinings,[sic] curl realistically, held by calyxes of gold, and centers are set, each with a diamond. Nephrite leaves group mainly along one long branchlet,[sic] reaching toward the light in their ascent. Karl Faberge, Russian court jeweler to the last two sovereigns of the Old Empire, created the little fantasy. It bears his name in Russian; initials of one of his ablest assistants, Henrik Wigstroem; the numeral "72" denoting the Russian equivalent of 18 kt. gold; and an assay device, in all likelihood that of St. Petersburg, now obscured. Number 5509 Mrs. John L. Pratt January 9, 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:

47.20.234

Names:

Hammer Galleries

Places:

New York (N.Y.)

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