lillian pratt died in 1947 and willed her extensive jewelry collection to the then-new virginia museum of fine arts in richmond, virginia. since the 1920s, encouraged by a family acquaintance, the businessman armand hammer, she had accumulated a large collection of peter carl fabergé jewelry, including five fabergé imperial easter eggs; the "revolving miniatures", "pelican", "peter the great", "czarevich", "red cross with imperial portraits" examples, as well as pins and bracelets which were being sold by the then-new government of the soviet union to raise capital for the soviet state. this collection, at the time the largest private collection of such items, had been initially acquired through purchases on her lord & taylor department store charge account. the "lillian pratt collection" at the virginia museum of fine arts is a key part of that institution's exhibits. lillian pratt is buried in tacoma, washington.