From the private collection of Philip & Sylvia Spertus
Second Prize, 1996 Philip and Sylvia Spertus Judaica Prize. Seder Plate, Amy Klein Reichert, Williamstown, Massachusetts, circa 1996.
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Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Mahogany with polished and hammered nickel, the metalwork executed by Sarah Care.
12 1/2 in. by 12 1/2 in.
32 x 32 cm
Chicago, 1996: The Seder Plate: The 1996 Philip and Sylvia Spertus Judaica Prize, Spertus Museum, no. 2.
Gomberg, Betsy, and Susan Schaalman Youdovin, eds. The Seder Plate: The 1996 Philip and Sylvia Spertus Judaica Prize. Chicago: Spertus Museum, 1996, pp. 22-23.
Commentary from the 1996 exhibition catalogue:
The Seder plate is not supposed to be a plate at all, but a symbolic landscape. Ordinary plates, when wiped clean, leave no hint of their previous use. in contrast, the Seder plate must bear a trace of what has been there, and point towards what will be there again. it is a repository of memory, whose mysterious, fossil-like impressions provide interpretation and elaboration.
An example of the plate prepared for a seder can be seen on the artist's website: https://amyreichertjudaica.com/product/seder-plate-i/
Other plates of this model are at the Yale University Art Gallery and in the Jewish Museum, New York. https://thejewishmuseum.org/collection/5022-seder-plate
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