5454

Containers:

Box SC-07 Box 1, Folder 10, Item SC07.02.3.166

Creator:

Hammer Galleries

Extent:

1 page

Scope and content:

Transcription: [On Hammer Galleries stationery, insignia of the Galleries with its double-headed eagle to the left of header; to the right, insignia with the inscription "By appointment to His Majesty the King of Egypt] TABLE Oval tea table of mahogany with mirror and fine silver chased mountings. A small oval tray, with pierced marquetry can be raised or lowered by regulating a latch beneath the table. The silver mountings were made by the celebrated court jeweler to Nikolai II, Karl Faberge, and are designed in his typical Roman staff and ribbon motif. The table itself was made in Paris by Escalier De Cristal, whose name is burned in the bottom. From the personal quarters of the Tsarina Aleksandra Feodorovna in the Aleksandr Palace, Tsarskoye Selo. Number 5454

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:

42.19.1

Names:

Hammer Galleries

Places:

New York (N.Y.)

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