"Dead Sea Stone" Goblet. Decorated footed goblet. Eretz Israel, [late 19th or early 20th century].
Bitumen stone ("Dead Sea Stone"), engraved. Engraved inscription "Ir Hakodesh Yerushalayim", decorations in a vegetal pattern with an engraved verse below "Ki Razu Avadecha et Avaneha…". Engraved inscription on the base "Stone from the Dead Sea".
Height: approx. 15 cm. Diameter of rim approx. 7 cm. Good condition. Break to base of goblet (broken piece exists). See: Arts and Crafts in Eretz Israel in the Nineteenth Century (published by Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1979), pages 151-153.