A Monumental Polish bronze synagogue Hanukah lamp

on three lion supports, multiple baluster stem decorated with rosettes, rosette and bud arms rising to campana sconces, eagle finial, stamped with borders of leaf-tips and beading, the base engraved with baskets of flowers and fruit, and inscribed "This is a donation of Reb Fievel and his wife Esther Yenma daughter of Reb Zinvel to the Holy Society Hesed ve-Emet [5]531 (1771)."

Nathaniel Spear Jr., New York
Kestenbaum & Co., August 28, 1997 (private sale)

New York, Ralph & Luba Baum Museum at the Jewish Home and Hospital, Riverdale
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, December 1998
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 27, 2001 - January 6, 2002
New York, Museum of American Jewish Heritage

Susan Braunstein, Five Centuries of Hanukkah Lamps from the Jewish Museum, 2004, p. 304, where other examples are listed.

central shaft broken where screws together, one arm repaired where joins stem, differences in color and chasing between parts
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Similar large bronze lamps are in several public collections, including The Jewish Museum of Budapest, inventory no. 64, 1167, and The Jewish Museum New York, dated 1752/3, Braunstein cat. no. 449.  One was formerly in the Davidowitz Collection, sold Parke Bernet Galleries, New York, March 16, 1967, lot 30.