Important Judaica
Important Judaica
Property of a direct descendant of Earl Morse
A LARGE AMERICAN SILVER MEZUZAH, ILYA SCHOR, NEW YORK, 1956
Auction Closed
June 5, 04:47 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A LARGE AMERICAN SILVER MEZUZAH, ILYA SCHOR, NEW YORK, 1956
of exceptional size, the door pierced and engraved with a complex scene of Moses receiving the Tablets of the Law from G-d, with flowering desert plants below, the interior of the door engraved with prayer for peace from the Silent Devotion, the parchment illuminated and gilt with a rabbi holding up the Torah above the words, translated, “From Zion shall go forth Torah and the word of G-d from Jerusalem”, with the appropriate mezuzah texts written on a separate parchment scroll, the back engraved with a flowering plant topped by a bird (Schor’s emblem), signed at the base in Hebrew and English, and with engraved dedication
signed at the base in Hebrew and English, and with engraved dedication
height 9¾ in.
25 cm
The back is inscribed “For Earl and Irene Morse 1956”. The family were friends with Schor’s family. Earl Morse was chairman of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations 1967-71, vice president of the Board of Governors of the American Jewish Committee, and was given an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 1973. Earl Morse formed a famous collection of Chinese works of Art, exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1982, “Spirit and Ritual, The Morse Collection of Ancient Chinese Art”.