Lot 59
Silver Handwashing Vessel – Zelig Segal (1933-2015)
Minimalist handwashing vessel, made by Zelig Segal (1933-2015).
Silver (marked on underside: "Z. Segal"), hand wrought; hammered.
Spherical handwashing vessel with two symmetrical concave pockets upon which a pair of rounded silver handles are mounted.
Artist Zelig Segal (1933-2015) was born in Jerusalem, and raised and educated in ultra-Orthodox environment. In 1949, he began studying in the metalwork department at the New Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts in Jerusalem. He is perhaps best known for creating objects of Judaica in a distinctive minimalist and modernist style. In the words of Gideon Ofrat (in translation from the Hebrew), Segal's works are distinguished by their "daring concept of form, forgoing embellishment, free for the most part of Orientalism, modernist in their clean geometric form, and subject to the language of the machine."
Height: 15 cm.
