Auction 28 - Objects - Judaica, Ceremonial Art and Israeliana
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Auction 28 - Objects - Judaica, Ceremonial Art and Israeliana
January 23, 2013
Opening: $4,500
Unsold
Torah Finials (Rimonim). [Afghanistan ? – Central Asia], 18th century.
Silver (gilded), filigree; impressed and engraved.
Four chains descend from each Torah finials, ending in bell-like marbles. Six-sided branches, three sides are smooth and three are adorned with silver threads (filigree).
Height: 19 cm. Bends. Lacking chains. Apparently, decorations at their tips are missing.
Silver (gilded), filigree; impressed and engraved.
Four chains descend from each Torah finials, ending in bell-like marbles. Six-sided branches, three sides are smooth and three are adorned with silver threads (filigree).
Height: 19 cm. Bends. Lacking chains. Apparently, decorations at their tips are missing.
Category
Torah Finials, Torah Pointers and Torah Crowns; Spice Containers
Catalogue
Auction 28 - Objects - Judaica, Ceremonial Art and Israeliana
January 23, 2013
Opening: $2,000
Sold for: $2,500
Including buyer's premium
Torah finials. [North Africa, end of 19th century].
Silver (partly gilded), sawn, engraved and impressed.
A frame (cartouche) is engraved on each stem. The inscription "Magen David" is engraved on one and the other is blank. The perimeter of each finial is adorned by six birds and with six sawn "windows" in two rows. In each window, a bell is hanging. At the top of each finial is a crown-like ornamentation and four hooks with bells hanging at their tips and another bird.
Height: 33 cm.
Silver (partly gilded), sawn, engraved and impressed.
A frame (cartouche) is engraved on each stem. The inscription "Magen David" is engraved on one and the other is blank. The perimeter of each finial is adorned by six birds and with six sawn "windows" in two rows. In each window, a bell is hanging. At the top of each finial is a crown-like ornamentation and four hooks with bells hanging at their tips and another bird.
Height: 33 cm.
Category
Torah Finials, Torah Pointers and Torah Crowns; Spice Containers
Catalogue
Auction 28 - Objects - Judaica, Ceremonial Art and Israeliana
January 23, 2013
Opening: $2,500
Unsold
A pair of Torah finials (Rimonim). Algeria, beginning of 20th century.
Sawn and engraved silver, partially gilded.
Engraved on the handles is the inscription "Servant of G-d Masoud Avitbul". Each finial is adorned with 12 bells.
Height: 35 cm. One small ornamentation is missing.
Sawn and engraved silver, partially gilded.
Engraved on the handles is the inscription "Servant of G-d Masoud Avitbul". Each finial is adorned with 12 bells.
Height: 35 cm. One small ornamentation is missing.
Category
Torah Finials, Torah Pointers and Torah Crowns; Spice Containers
Catalogue
Auction 28 - Objects - Judaica, Ceremonial Art and Israeliana
January 23, 2013
Opening: $300
Sold for: $425
Including buyer's premium
Torah finials (Rimonim). Morocco or Tunisia, 20th century.
Silver (unstamped) sawn and engraved.
A Star of David tops each finial. Engraved on the handle of one finial is the name "Miriam Cohen".
Height: 25 cm. Three bells are missing.
Silver (unstamped) sawn and engraved.
A Star of David tops each finial. Engraved on the handle of one finial is the name "Miriam Cohen".
Height: 25 cm. Three bells are missing.
Category
Torah Finials, Torah Pointers and Torah Crowns; Spice Containers
Catalogue
Auction 28 - Objects - Judaica, Ceremonial Art and Israeliana
January 23, 2013
Opening: $1,000
Unsold
A pair of Torah Finials (Rimonim). India or Iraq, late 19th century or early 20th century.
Silver, engraved.
Engraved on one finial is a dedication: "Donation to Beit Knesset Sha'arei Tefilla in memory of Rabbi Shalom Shabazi". To the best of our knowledge, the Torah finials originated in India. Apparently, they were made in Iraq and were used by members of the Iraqi Jewish community of India.
Height: 18 cm. Six chains missing.
Silver, engraved.
Engraved on one finial is a dedication: "Donation to Beit Knesset Sha'arei Tefilla in memory of Rabbi Shalom Shabazi". To the best of our knowledge, the Torah finials originated in India. Apparently, they were made in Iraq and were used by members of the Iraqi Jewish community of India.
Height: 18 cm. Six chains missing.
Category
Torah Finials, Torah Pointers and Torah Crowns; Spice Containers
Catalogue
Auction 28 - Objects - Judaica, Ceremonial Art and Israeliana
January 23, 2013
Opening: $300
Unsold
A single Torah finial (Rimon). [Iraq, early 20th century].
Silver (unstamped).
Five hanging chains ending with uvulas. Engraved dedication from 1911, "For the resting of the deceased Eliyahu Avraham Tavina and the resting of Rachel bat Zelacha died 25 Kislev 5671". (The date is in Arabic numerals).
Height: 19 cm. Bends.
Silver (unstamped).
Five hanging chains ending with uvulas. Engraved dedication from 1911, "For the resting of the deceased Eliyahu Avraham Tavina and the resting of Rachel bat Zelacha died 25 Kislev 5671". (The date is in Arabic numerals).
Height: 19 cm. Bends.
Category
Torah Finials, Torah Pointers and Torah Crowns; Spice Containers
Catalogue
Auction 28 - Objects - Judaica, Ceremonial Art and Israeliana
January 23, 2013
Opening: $2,400
Unsold
A pair of Torah finials (Rimonim). Vienna, [end of 19th century or beginning of 20th century].
Silver (stamped on base). Engraving and sawing work.
Two rows of bells surrounding each finial.
Height: 30 cm. Several bends.
Silver (stamped on base). Engraving and sawing work.
Two rows of bells surrounding each finial.
Height: 30 cm. Several bends.
Category
Torah Finials, Torah Pointers and Torah Crowns; Spice Containers
Catalogue
Auction 28 - Objects - Judaica, Ceremonial Art and Israeliana
January 23, 2013
Opening: $4,000
Unsold
Torah finials. Lvov, 19th century.
Sawn impressed silver. Stamped (several times): "DF", emblem of Diana's Head with the numeral 3 and the letter F (representing the city of Lvov).
Both ends of the stems are covered with leaf-shaped ornamentation; the upmost end is shaped like a flattened marble. The finials are made of two styled disks with a pole passing through their centers. They are decorated with six impressive lions holding the uppermost disk in their front paws and the bottom disk in their back paws. At the top of finials is another decoration – lions holding the Tablets of Law, on the Tablets is a Star of David.
Height: 22.5 cm.
Sawn impressed silver. Stamped (several times): "DF", emblem of Diana's Head with the numeral 3 and the letter F (representing the city of Lvov).
Both ends of the stems are covered with leaf-shaped ornamentation; the upmost end is shaped like a flattened marble. The finials are made of two styled disks with a pole passing through their centers. They are decorated with six impressive lions holding the uppermost disk in their front paws and the bottom disk in their back paws. At the top of finials is another decoration – lions holding the Tablets of Law, on the Tablets is a Star of David.
Height: 22.5 cm.
Category
Torah Finials, Torah Pointers and Torah Crowns; Spice Containers
Catalogue
Auction 28 - Objects - Judaica, Ceremonial Art and Israeliana
January 23, 2013
Opening: $2,500
Sold for: $3,125
Including buyer's premium
Torah Finials. USA, late 19th - early 20th century.
Hammered, engraved, partially gilded silver. Stamped: "BC", "84", "1890" and forged Russian silver stamps.
Decorated with plant patterns and birds holding bells in their beaks. Two rows of bells. The tops of the Torah finials are crown-like, topped by a bird.
The shape of these Torah finials is similar to those created in Russia, Ukraine and Poland beginning at the end of the 19th century. The Russian silver seals on the branches are forged. Immigrants who arrived to the USA from Eastern Europe did not recognize the "Sterling" stamps that American and English jewelers impressed on such utensils and therefore hesitated to buy them. American manufacturers who wished to acquire the faith of the customers from Eastern Europe used to add forged Russian seals to Jewish utensils. For further details, see: "50 'rimonim', selection of 'rimonim' for Torah scrolls from the collection of a European family" (catalogue of exhibit in Tel-Aviv University, Museum of Judaica, Synagogue and Center for Jewish Heritage named after Zimbalista, 1998), p. 49; and" Crowning Glory, Silver Torah Ornaments of the Jewish Museum, New York" (published by the Jewish Museum, New York, 1996), Items 355-359.
Height: 40 cm. One Torah finial is lacking a decoration at the top. Lacking bells.
Hammered, engraved, partially gilded silver. Stamped: "BC", "84", "1890" and forged Russian silver stamps.
Decorated with plant patterns and birds holding bells in their beaks. Two rows of bells. The tops of the Torah finials are crown-like, topped by a bird.
The shape of these Torah finials is similar to those created in Russia, Ukraine and Poland beginning at the end of the 19th century. The Russian silver seals on the branches are forged. Immigrants who arrived to the USA from Eastern Europe did not recognize the "Sterling" stamps that American and English jewelers impressed on such utensils and therefore hesitated to buy them. American manufacturers who wished to acquire the faith of the customers from Eastern Europe used to add forged Russian seals to Jewish utensils. For further details, see: "50 'rimonim', selection of 'rimonim' for Torah scrolls from the collection of a European family" (catalogue of exhibit in Tel-Aviv University, Museum of Judaica, Synagogue and Center for Jewish Heritage named after Zimbalista, 1998), p. 49; and" Crowning Glory, Silver Torah Ornaments of the Jewish Museum, New York" (published by the Jewish Museum, New York, 1996), Items 355-359.
Height: 40 cm. One Torah finial is lacking a decoration at the top. Lacking bells.
Category
Torah Finials, Torah Pointers and Torah Crowns; Spice Containers
Catalogue
Auction 28 - Objects - Judaica, Ceremonial Art and Israeliana
January 23, 2013
Opening: $300
Sold for: $600
Including buyer's premium
Two pairs of Torah finials (Rimonim). Yemen, 20th century.
Cast brass, sawn and bent.
Height: 25.5-26 cm; 27 cm.
Cast brass, sawn and bent.
Height: 25.5-26 cm; 27 cm.
Category
Torah Finials, Torah Pointers and Torah Crowns; Spice Containers
Catalogue
Auction 28 - Objects - Judaica, Ceremonial Art and Israeliana
January 23, 2013
Opening: $700
Sold for: $875
Including buyer's premium
Torah finials. [Aden, South Yemen, 20th century].
Hammered, granulated silver.
Descending from each finial are 14 silver chains with bells at their ends; another row of hangers for four bells. At their top is a sawn decoration from which six more bells are hanging.
Height; 29 cm. Missing bells.
Hammered, granulated silver.
Descending from each finial are 14 silver chains with bells at their ends; another row of hangers for four bells. At their top is a sawn decoration from which six more bells are hanging.
Height; 29 cm. Missing bells.
Category
Torah Finials, Torah Pointers and Torah Crowns; Spice Containers
Catalogue
Auction 28 - Objects - Judaica, Ceremonial Art and Israeliana
January 23, 2013
Opening: $3,500
Unsold
Silver plate for hanging. [Europe], 1797.
Silver. Sawing, relief and engraving art.
Engraved dedication: "V'zot Asher LaLevi'im, was newly used Shabbat HaChodesh and Chanukah 1797", and illustration of a jug for hand washing and two branches. Apparently, used for hanging on the sink or on the cup for washing the hands of the "cohanim" in the synagogue. On the reverse side of the plate are three loops for chains. One chain exists and two are missing.
10 cm. Maximum width: 7.5 cm.
Silver. Sawing, relief and engraving art.
Engraved dedication: "V'zot Asher LaLevi'im, was newly used Shabbat HaChodesh and Chanukah 1797", and illustration of a jug for hand washing and two branches. Apparently, used for hanging on the sink or on the cup for washing the hands of the "cohanim" in the synagogue. On the reverse side of the plate are three loops for chains. One chain exists and two are missing.
10 cm. Maximum width: 7.5 cm.
Category
Torah Finials, Torah Pointers and Torah Crowns; Spice Containers
Catalogue