A Polish parcel-gilt silver hanukah lamp, J. Nowakowski, Warsaw, circa 1840

the shaped gilt backplate overlaid with matted and polished oak sprays and roses, above a crown supported by lions holding a wreath, and enclosed by bud-topped columns, the campana lamps with bird-form covers, the cresting topped by spread-winged swan and pair of birds, fitted with pitcher-form servant light, marked on base with maker, city, and 12

two lamps lacking inner liners, bird at top right now secured by base-metal pins, ?date of three birds at top of backplate
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A similar lamp is illustrated in Danzig 1939:Treasures of a Destroyed Community, 1980.