A Pair of Egyptian Silver Torah Finials, Cairo, circa 1900
No reserve
Auction Closed
December 15, 09:26 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Pair of Egyptian Silver Torah Finials, Cairo, circa 1900
each of spool form with domed top, engine-turned borders, baluster finials, engraved in Hebrew and "Gabbou Aslan Palombo 1926", hung with bells on chains
Height 8¼in. (21 cm)
Aslan-Leon Palombo was born before 1902; he and his wife Marie Palombo (Nehmad; d. 1937) had six children. He died in 1943 in Cairo.
Jay Weinstein, A Collector’s Guide to Judaica, London: Thames & Hudson, 1985, p. 95, fig. 105.
The Hebrew text on each finial reads: “The Holy Community of Neve Shalom.”
Neve Shalom, also called Keniss el Kebira, was a synagogue in Cairo, built in 1890 in the Daher district; it was photographed in 1984 but is now noted as no longer extant. For photographs of parts of its interior, see: https://cja.huji.ac.il/browser.php?mode=set&id=10240.
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