Auction 69 - Part I -Rare and Important Items
Silver Hanukkah Lamp – Warsaw, 1892 – Long-term Loan to the Jewish Historical Museum of Amsterdam
Opening: $10,000
Estimate: $15,000 - $20,000
Unsold
Silver Hanukkah lamp, made at the Antoni Riedel silverware workshop. Warsaw, 1892.
Silver (marked "A. Riedel", workshop mark, "84", "O.C." [Osip Sosnkowski], "1892", double-headed eagle and later marks) repoussé, die-stamped, cast and appliqué.
Back-plate surrounded by a frame of rocaille, flowers and leaves, extending over the width of the plate. Torah crown applied to top center, surmounted by a crouching gazelle, flanked by lions rampant regardant, langued. Centered by a seven-branched Menorah flanked by stylized pillars.
Festooned balcony mounted with palm trees flanked by lions and spiral silver wire posts bearing two cockerels, a bird, a gazelle and an eagle perched on a silver sphere; all behind a row of eight candle holders supported by eagles.
The Hanukkah lamp is set on four foliate and ball supports. A (removeable) Shamash fixed to the right of the back-plate, oil jug (also removable) fixed to left, both on spiral silver wire.
Height: 34.5 cm. Width: approx. 27.5 cm. Good condition. Minor bends.
Provenance:
1. Private collection.
2. On loan to the Jewish Historical Museum of Amsterdam 1967-2017. Catalog no. MB00355.
Silver (marked "A. Riedel", workshop mark, "84", "O.C." [Osip Sosnkowski], "1892", double-headed eagle and later marks) repoussé, die-stamped, cast and appliqué.
Back-plate surrounded by a frame of rocaille, flowers and leaves, extending over the width of the plate. Torah crown applied to top center, surmounted by a crouching gazelle, flanked by lions rampant regardant, langued. Centered by a seven-branched Menorah flanked by stylized pillars.
Festooned balcony mounted with palm trees flanked by lions and spiral silver wire posts bearing two cockerels, a bird, a gazelle and an eagle perched on a silver sphere; all behind a row of eight candle holders supported by eagles.
The Hanukkah lamp is set on four foliate and ball supports. A (removeable) Shamash fixed to the right of the back-plate, oil jug (also removable) fixed to left, both on spiral silver wire.
Height: 34.5 cm. Width: approx. 27.5 cm. Good condition. Minor bends.
Provenance:
1. Private collection.
2. On loan to the Jewish Historical Museum of Amsterdam 1967-2017. Catalog no. MB00355.
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