A German Pewter Seder Dish, Possibly Strasburg, Early 19th Century
Lot Closed
June 27, 03:27 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
the interior engraved with lions supporting a shield surrounded by eleven scenes as follows: Moses with Sefer Torah, Noah's Ark, Adam and Eve, the Binding of Isaac, the Branding of Cain, Moses and the Rock, the Two Spies, the Four Sons described in the Passover Haggadah, Homan Hanging on the Gallows, and the Temple Menorah, the rim engraved with the order of the Seder in Hebrew, marked on back three times with angel touchmark
diameter 15 1/4 in.
38.7 cm
Jacobo and Asea Furman Collection (JAF 92)
Sotheby's New York, December 12, 2000, lot 6
New York, Jewish Museum, 1985, no. 31
New York, Jewish Museum, "Memories of Alsace," 1989, exhibition brochure, p. 4
Treasures of Jewish Art from the Jacobo and Asea Furman Collection of Judaica, 1997, p. 138-139, illus.
According to Susan Braunstein, this plate belongs to a group of at least nine which appear to have been produced in Alsace. An almost identical plate is in the Jewish Museum, New York (F1062); others are in the Moldova collection and the Musée Alsacien, Strasbourg.
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