Auction 57 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art

Hanukkah Lamp - Morocco - Birds

Opening: $600
Unsold
Hanukkah lamp. Morocco (Probably, Sefrou), [19th century].
Cast brass, chiseled.
On the back plate, which consists of two parts connected with rivets, are openings in vegetal shapes. In the center - a row of arched gates and on top - a window shaped as a horseshoe-arch. On the left and on the right - four birds. A suspension loop on top, with a fleur-de-lis decoration.
Length: approx. 38 cm. Width: 23 cm. Break at the center of the back plate (at upper margins of lower part). Corrosion.
See: Lights in the Atlas Mountains, Hanukkah Menorahs from the collection of J. Shulman in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2002), p. 57, item 27.
Hanukkah Lamps, Shabbat and Memorial Lamps
Hanukkah Lamps, Shabbat and Memorial Lamps