Lot 32
  • 32

A Rare Carved Bone Spice Tower, probably Polish, 18th-19th century

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Bone
  • height 5 7/8 in.
  • 15cm
of two-tiered rectangular form, the lower tier decorated with the Sacrifice of Isaac, a ram, a Torah Ark containing a Sefer Torah, and a seven branch menorah, all within pillars, the upper portion carved with two doves, an eagle, a deer, and a lion below a pierced spice section hung with tassels, surmounted by an eagle, set on paw supports (one tassel and one foot missing)

Provenance

Sotheby's, Tel Aviv, 9 December 1999, lot 10

Condition

as noted re mising tassel and paw support, some age crack to ivory, base needs to be reattached to body-- seems to lack a internal post to secure
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