Hanukkah lamp. Warsaw, Poland, turn of the 19th-20th cent. Copper. Embossed decorations attached and screwed to side panel: ornamentations of leaves and plants, Torah Crown, Seven-branched Menorah with palm trees on both sides supported by lions. On the side of the lamp is an oil font for the Shamash and an oil jug (removable). Maximum height: 30 cm, width: 23 cm. Fair-good condition, one oil font lacks the screw. Removable ornamentation (below the crown) is missing. Loose joints. Scratches to side panel.

Large Hanukkah lamp. [Probably Bukhara, early 20th century]. Soapstone, chiseled. A large and massive Hanukkah lamp, consists of three rows: in the first row – a single depression with space for a wick; four depression in the second; in the third row are eight depressions with spaces for wicks. Stone lamps were common in Jewish congregations in various countries (Yemen, Morocco and even in Jerusalem), but they were usually small and consisted of two rows of oil wells. In the collections of the London Jewish Museum appears a Hanukkah Lamp similar to the one offered here, with three rows of oil wells, from Bukhara. See: Catalogue of the Permanent and Loan Collections of the Jewish Museum, London, edited by R. D. Barnett, London, 1974, item 217, plate LXXIX (photographed). Length: 24 cm, width: 29 cm, height: 8.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Break at lower left corner. Breaks (glued) to right panel.

Hanukkah lamp. Morocco, Essaouira (?), [ca. 1948-1950]. Brass sheet, sawn and engraved; cast brass. Backplate is designed as a horseshoe-arch with a pointed tip, topped with a cut Star of David. Decorated with two Tablets of the Law, (inscribed in Hebrew: “Two Tablets”), a crown, flags of Israel and the inscription “To light a candle of Hanukkah” (Hebrew). A row of pointed horseshoe-arches. Cast oil fonts and a lower basin with pinched edges. The decorations of this lamp resemble the Seder Plate in this catalogue (see item 617 and see Kedem catalogue no. 28, item 129) and it is possible that they were created by the same artist. Height: 28.5 cm, width: 22 cm. Good condition. Some bends.

Lamp, [by Bezalel artist Avraham Bar Adon?]. [Eretz Israel, ca.1910s-20s]. Cast brass, engraved, bent and cut; wiring. Rectangular base. A camel stands on the base. Rods are attached to the camel’s hump, ending with a light socket and a lampshade. Fine geometric patterns adorn the lampshade and the inscription “And G-d saw the Light…”. Lampshade topped with a Star of David. Height: 48 cm., max. width: 28 cm. Good condition. Electric mechanism intact.