Lot 386
Hanukkah Lamp with Rooflet - Marrakesh - Morocco
Hanukkah lamp. [Marrakesh, Morocco, first decades of the 20th century].
Cut, pierced and embossed brass sheet.
Dome-shaped back panel, decorated with a symmetric composition that includes a pair of peacocks, four crowns and two rosette-shaped pierced decorations. Above the dome is a soldered rooflet extending frontwards, its top part decorated with crowns and vegetal motifs and pierced with eleven circles. The side panels are embossed with heart-shaped vegetal decorations. A removable row of rectangular oil fonts with pinched spouts. The shamash is located at the top of the back panel, between the necks of the peacocks. Suspension loop.
Length: 21.5 cm, width: 24.5 cm. Good condition. Old soldering repairs.
Provenance: Shlomo Shva collection.
