Heart-shaped dedicatory plaque ("tass"), suspended so as to overhang Torah ark curtain. Syria, Lebanon, or vicinity, [ca. 1900-20].
Sheet silver, cut, repoussé, stamped and punched.
Hebrew dedicatory inscription "[…] dedicated by […] Salhah [in memory of] her father, Hakham David Tarab Maslaton […] and her mother […] Rina."
The Tarab-Maslaton family was a celebrated family of rabbis, renowned throughout the Near East. A number of noted members of the family served as chief rabbis of cities, including Damascus, Beirut, and Cairo, in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Length: 21 cm. Width: 23 cm. Good condition. Set in elegant wood-and-glass frame (not examined outside frame).
See also item nos. 121, 188.
Purchased from the A. Fogel Collection, Tel Aviv, April 1982.