Important Judaica
Important Judaica
Property of a direct descendant of Earl Morse
AN AMERICAN SILVER SPICE TOWER WITH REVOLVING FIGURES, ILYA SCHOR, NEW YORK, DATED 1955
Auction Closed
June 5, 04:47 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
AN AMERICAN SILVER SPICE TOWER WITH REVOLVING FIGURES, ILYA SCHOR, NEW YORK, DATED 1955
formed as a quadrangular tower, with twelve engraved and pierced scenes, the interior with four revolving figures of Moses, Elijah, Aaron and King David, controlled by turning the wheel below the finial, the square base engraved with a line from Genesis 28 v 3 “May El Shaddai bless you and make you fertile and numerous, so that you become an assembly of peoples”, the top mounted with four birds perched on the letter S and the finial formed as a youth holding a banner
signed on base in English and Hebrew and with bird and dated 1955
height 11¼ in.
28.4 cm
The 12 scenes are as follows:
Ruth gleaning in a field; Ruth & Boaz; the Spies of Canaan.
Elijah fed by the widow; Elijah fed by the Ravens; Elijah welcomed by an angel.
Abraham and Sarah greeting the three angels; Abraham and Melchezedek; Jacob bringing gifts to Esau.
Joseph’s dream of the sheaves of wheat; Elijah and the miracle of the jug of oil; Elijah with the miracle of the barrel of meal.