Auction 28 - Objects - Judaica, Ceremonial Art and Israeliana
Bronze Mortars with Kabalistic Engravings – Baghdad
Opening: $2,000
Sold for: $2,500
Including buyer's premium
Three bronze mortars, with a pestle. Baghdad.
Kabalistic inscriptions, folk art engraving on mortars, circularly engraved: Name of 42 (letters), the prayer "Ana B'koach", verses and incantations [against "ayin hara", for good livelihood]. Illustrations for "segulot": menorah, shofar, scale, fish. On one of the mortars is "Tefillat HaDerech" (prayer for the road) and a verse for protection "Ben Porat Yosef…".
The name of the giver is engraved on all the mortars, "Rabbi Sasson Barzani". One mortar has a dedication, "Gift to Ya'akov ben Miriam, Rabbi Sasson Barzani, Arbiel Baghdad, 1903". A similar inscription is on the pestle.
Height: 12-13.5 cm. Circumference: 12.5 cm. Length of pestle: 23 cm.
Kabalistic inscriptions, folk art engraving on mortars, circularly engraved: Name of 42 (letters), the prayer "Ana B'koach", verses and incantations [against "ayin hara", for good livelihood]. Illustrations for "segulot": menorah, shofar, scale, fish. On one of the mortars is "Tefillat HaDerech" (prayer for the road) and a verse for protection "Ben Porat Yosef…".
The name of the giver is engraved on all the mortars, "Rabbi Sasson Barzani". One mortar has a dedication, "Gift to Ya'akov ben Miriam, Rabbi Sasson Barzani, Arbiel Baghdad, 1903". A similar inscription is on the pestle.
Height: 12-13.5 cm. Circumference: 12.5 cm. Length of pestle: 23 cm.
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