A SILVER MEMORIAL PLAQUE FROM A TORAH ARK CURTAIN, DATED 1895

Inscription: “This Torah curtain is consecrated upon the passing of the noble, modest, elder Lady Hannah Khatun bat No‘am, may she abide in Eden, wife of Sir Abdullah David Sassoon, may God protect and keep him, to the Yagel Yaakov Synagogue in the Holy City of Jerusalem, may it be rebuilt and reestablished quickly in our days, amen. She passed away in Bombay on Wednesday, 13 Tevet 5655 [January 9, 1895]. May her soul be bound up in the Bond of Life.”

A matching plaque, also dated 1895, was donated to the same synagogue by Havivah, wife of Isaac Ezra Aboudi of Hong Kong, in honor of her husband and children; it was sold Sotheby's, Tel Aviv, "A Collection from the Sassoon Family Estate", October 25 and 27, 2000, lot 24.