Memorial lamp, in memory of Bienvenida de Razon. Ottoman Empire, [1895].
Silver, cut, repoussé, and engraved (unmarked).

Silver memorial lamp, decorated in vegetal patterns characteristic of Jewish ritual objects originating from the Ottoman Empire. Back plate in shape of a pointed arch, with rich decorative patterns framed by a plain border. Lower border engraved with a (Hebrew) dedicatory inscription: "The Late Bienvenida de Razon… 11th of Adar, [1895]…". A broad, rectangular oil pan is soldered onto the bottom of the vertical plate. The oil pan has two pinched spouts soldered onto its two front corners.
The name “Bienvenida de Razon” suggests that this lamp derives from one of the Ladino-speaking communities of the Ottoman Empire and/or the Balkans. Families bearing this surname lived, among other places, in Greece and Turkey. One particular rabbi, Avraham Razon (d. 1910), is known to have resided in Istanbul.

Height: 18 cm. Maximal width: 15.5 cm. Good condition. Old soldering repairs on verso. Suspension hook on verso.

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