Spice container shaped as a tower. [East Europe, 19th century]. Silver (marked, silver-mark not clear), pierced, filigree. Four long legs. Container with a door opening downwards; three panels are adorned with two birds facing each other (this motif originates, as it seems, from the folk art of papercutting which was common in East Europe). An additional tier with four windows and above it an additional tier, pointed, with a balcony and a flag. Height: 21.5 cm Good condition. See: Towers of Spices: The Tower-shape Tradition in Havdalah Spice-boxes (The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1982), item no. 50 (Photographed on p. 37).