Finalist, 1998 Philip and Sylvia Spertus Judaica Prize. Spice Container, Iris Ezra-Tutnauer, Jerusalem, circa 1998.

Chicago, 1998: The Havdalah Spice Container, Philip and Sylvia Spertus Judaica Prize. Spertus Museum, 1998.

Gomberg, Betsy, and Susan Schaalman Youdovin, eds. The Havdalah Spice Container, Philip and Sylvia Spertus Judaica Prize. Chicago, Spertus Museum, 1998, pp. 29.

Commentary from the 1998 catalogue:

This spice container is the shape formed by hands cupped to hold a delicate or valuable object. It is composed of many thin leaves of silver in a pod to contain the spices. The leaves separate to insert or reveal the fresh spice. The container invites participants to grasp it and inhale the fragrance from up close, while parting from Shabbat's holiness.

Another example of this model is in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem: https://www.imj.org.il/en/artistec/iris-ezra-tutnauer-israeli-born-1964