A MONUMENTAL AMERICAN SILVER MEZUZAH, ILYA SCHOR, NEW YORK, CIRCA 1950-60

A MONUMENTAL AMERICAN SILVER MEZUZAH, ILYA SCHOR, NEW YORK, CIRCA 1950-60

the cresting with the name of G-d, the hinged door engraved with three scenes- a dancing Hassid, a man digging the soil, and a rabbi praying, the inside engraved with a cello player, a rabbi, and a flowering plant, applied bird and Schor's signature, the case with openwork of the Zodiac signs, filled with a richly colored and gilt illuminated prayer, in a giltwood shadow box frame

the back signed in English and Hebrew and with bird

height 9⅛ in.

23 cm