Lot 323
  • 323

A MOROCCAN BRASS HANUKAH LAMP

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
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Description

  • brass
  • length 8 1/2 in.
  • 21.6 cm
formed as three hinged arcades with matching hinged side pieces, topped by hinged openwork pediment and suspension ring, bird finials, engraved throughout with foliage.

Exhibited

New York, Hebrew Union College, Jewish Institute of Religion, The Collector's Room:  Selections from the Michael and Judy Steinhardt Collection, 1993, no. 90, illus.

Condition

Some nuts replaced, one missing, repair to one hinge of top panel.
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Catalogue Note

A similar lamp is in The Jewish Museum, New York; see Susan Braunstein, Five Centuries of Hanukah Lamps from The Jewish Museum, no. 534, p. 325.