拍品 343
  • 343

A CARVED AND PAINTED PEDIMENT FOR AN ARK

估價
7,000 - 10,000 USD
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描述

  • wood
  • height of tablets 33 3/4 in.; length of each lion 28 1/2 in.
  • 86 cm; 72.4 cm
with two lions flanking the Tablets of the Law, surmounted by a crown, the lions gilded, the tablets gilt on blue ground.

來源

Bronx Synagogue, New York

出版

Related crestings are illustrated in Murrey Zimiles, Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses: The Synagogue to the Carousel - Jewish Carving Traditions, for instance p. 113 and p. 129.

Condition

Lions with gold paint, the tablets repainted.
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