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Two Bezalel Pictorial rugs
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3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description
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The founding of the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts by Boris Schatz in 1906 marks the beginning of a new period of Jewish artistic activity in the Land of Israel. The carpet-weaving department was the first Bezalel workshop.
1. Rug with the image of the two Bezalel buildings, the School and the Museum, flanked by two menorahs and a Hebrew inscription below praising Bezalel, the artist who built the Tabernacle in the wilderness and after whom the school was named “And He has filled him [Bezalel] with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, with understanding, and with knowledge all manner of crafts” (Exodus 35:31). The word Zion inscribed within medallions in the shape of a Magen David frame the border of the rug. (16 x 35 in.:406 x 889 mm).
2. Rug with the image of the two Bezalel buildings, the School and the Museum, flanked by two menorahs and a Hebrew inscription below stating “A memento of the day that I arrived in the Land of Israel, 15 Tammuz, [5]666 (= July 6, 1906) Joseph Barsky.” Signed Bezalel. (22 x 46 in.: 559 x 1168 mm).
This rug was purchased from the Bezalel carpet workshop by the renowned architect Joseph Barsky, chief proponent of the Eretz Israel style, who lived and worked in Jerusalem. His most famous buildings were the Bikur Holim Hospital and the Diskin Orphanage in Jerusalem as well as the Herzliya Hebrew High School (designed in consultation with Schatz).
1. Rug with the image of the two Bezalel buildings, the School and the Museum, flanked by two menorahs and a Hebrew inscription below praising Bezalel, the artist who built the Tabernacle in the wilderness and after whom the school was named “And He has filled him [Bezalel] with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, with understanding, and with knowledge all manner of crafts” (Exodus 35:31). The word Zion inscribed within medallions in the shape of a Magen David frame the border of the rug. (16 x 35 in.:406 x 889 mm).
2. Rug with the image of the two Bezalel buildings, the School and the Museum, flanked by two menorahs and a Hebrew inscription below stating “A memento of the day that I arrived in the Land of Israel, 15 Tammuz, [5]666 (= July 6, 1906) Joseph Barsky.” Signed Bezalel. (22 x 46 in.: 559 x 1168 mm).
This rug was purchased from the Bezalel carpet workshop by the renowned architect Joseph Barsky, chief proponent of the Eretz Israel style, who lived and worked in Jerusalem. His most famous buildings were the Bikur Holim Hospital and the Diskin Orphanage in Jerusalem as well as the Herzliya Hebrew High School (designed in consultation with Schatz).
Literature
Chaya Benjamin, Early Israeli Arts and Crafts: Bezalel Treasures from the Alan B. Slifka Collection in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem: 2008