Lot 407
Chanukah Lamp - Iraq, 1930s or 40s
Upright Chanukah lamp. [Iraq, 1930s or 40s].
Low grade silver; German silver.
Upright Chanukah lamp with eight branches in a circle, ending in oil-fonts. The shamash crowns the central shaft.
This type of Chanukah lamps appeared in Iraq in the early 1930s as Iraq won its independence, remaining popular for the following two decades until the mass immigration to Israel in the early 50s.
Height: 27.5 cm. Good-fair condition. One lacking branch. Stains. Bends. An (unidentified) catalog no. is engraved unto the underside of the lamps.
Literature: Oriental Jewish Communities in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Iraq. Edited by Haim Saadon. Jerusalem: Ben Zvi Institute, 2003.
