Hanukkah lamp. [Algeria or Tunisia, 20th century].
Cast brass; rivets.
Crescent-shaped back plate, with eight gates, a vase with flowers, apertures in vegetal motifs and two encircled stars. At the top of the plate are two large birds; between them is another encircled star. The side plates also feature apertures in vegetal motifs and a bird at the top of each plate. A row of long, pinched oil fonts.
Length: 23 cm, width: 22 cm. Good condition. Some corrosion. The birds at the top of the back plate are somewhat loose.
See: North African Lights: Hanukkah Lamps from the Zeyde Schulmann Collection, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2002), p. 126, item 119.