Lot 390
Hanukkah Lamp - Holland, 18th Century
Hanukkah lamp. [Holland, 18th century].
Cast brass.
Hanukkah lamp of the type used by the Portuguese community in Holland. At the top of the back plate are three fleur-de-lis decorations. The shamashim are located at the center of the right and left fleurs-de-lis. Blank rectangle beneath the central fleur-de-lis.
Length: 24.5 cm, width: 30 cm. Soldering repairs to top fleur-de-lis decoration. A number of repairs and reinforcements with tin. No screws.
See:
1. Hanukkah Lamps of the Judah L. Magnes Museum, by Ruth Eis (Berkeley, California, 1977), no. MC 27.
2. Five Centuries of Hanukkah Lamps from The Jewish Museum, Susan L. Braunstein Braunstein (New York, 2004), no. 4.
3. Narkiss, "The Hanukkah Lamp", plate XXI, item 58.
Also see next item.
