Auction 81 - The Wily Lindwer Collection
July 13, 2021
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Auction 81 - The Wily Lindwer Collection
July 13, 2021
Opening: $400
Unsold
Kiddush cup with matching saucer and lid. Probably Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), India, [first half of 20th century].
Silver (marked), cast and engraved.
Kiddush cup with stout shaft and round base, with decorative band with vegetal pattern featuring tiny leaves and fruit. With matching lid and saucer, as customary in several Indian Jewish communities. Lid surmounted by ornament in shape of flower bud. Saucer supported on three legs designed to look like legs of bird of prey, with talons grasping a small sphere.
Height: 14 cm. Including saucer: 16 cm.
Reference: The Jews of India, p. 88.
Silver (marked), cast and engraved.
Kiddush cup with stout shaft and round base, with decorative band with vegetal pattern featuring tiny leaves and fruit. With matching lid and saucer, as customary in several Indian Jewish communities. Lid surmounted by ornament in shape of flower bud. Saucer supported on three legs designed to look like legs of bird of prey, with talons grasping a small sphere.
Height: 14 cm. Including saucer: 16 cm.
Reference: The Jews of India, p. 88.
Category
India and Burma
Catalogue
Auction 81 - The Wily Lindwer Collection
July 13, 2021
Opening: $250
Unsold
Three mezuzah cases. India, [20th century].
Brass, cast and sawed; copper, cast and sawed; glass.
1. Large mezuzah case, cylindrical, with heart-shaped aperture and elegant, symmetrical back plate. Length: 24 cm.
2. Mezuzah case, cylindrical, with aperture in shape of domed building, and back plate with two Stars of David at top and bottom. Length: 13 cm.
3. Mezuzah case, cylindrical, with oval-shaped aperture and back plate in form of elongated Star of David. Length: 13.5 cm.
Brass, cast and sawed; copper, cast and sawed; glass.
1. Large mezuzah case, cylindrical, with heart-shaped aperture and elegant, symmetrical back plate. Length: 24 cm.
2. Mezuzah case, cylindrical, with aperture in shape of domed building, and back plate with two Stars of David at top and bottom. Length: 13 cm.
3. Mezuzah case, cylindrical, with oval-shaped aperture and back plate in form of elongated Star of David. Length: 13.5 cm.
Category
India and Burma
Catalogue
Auction 81 - The Wily Lindwer Collection
July 13, 2021
Opening: $350
Unsold
Two single Torah finials, each from a pair. Far East, [late 19th century].
Silver, cast, repoussé and engraved.
1. Iraqi-Jewish community of Rangoon, Burma (today Yangon, Myanmar), dedicatory inscription dated 5654 [1894]. Torah finial of Oriental (Mizrahi) type. Head in form of tapering dome, surmounted by ornament. Body pear-shaped, topped with decorated disk-like ornament, and with flattened sphere at bottom. Shaft diagonally truncated at bottom, so as to fit a typical Iraqi Torah case. Hebrew dedicatory inscription: "Wife of the dear wealthy one… Avraham Sisso, may the Lord maintain and protect him, in the month of Nissan 5654 [1894]." Height: 17 cm. No chains and bells.
For comparison, see: The Israel Museum Collection, item no. B86.0167; The Stieglitz Collection: Masterpieces of Jewish Art, item no. 17.
2. India, [late 19th century]. Torah finial of Oriental (Mizrahi) type, stout and heavy. Head shaped like inverted calyx of flower, surmounted by tapering knop. Body pear-shaped, topped with two disk-like ornaments. Suspended from lower disk are chains with heavy, droplet-shaped ornaments at their ends that chime like bells. Stout shaft. Height: 20 cm.
For comparison, see: Center for Jewish Art, item no. 8192.
Silver, cast, repoussé and engraved.
1. Iraqi-Jewish community of Rangoon, Burma (today Yangon, Myanmar), dedicatory inscription dated 5654 [1894]. Torah finial of Oriental (Mizrahi) type. Head in form of tapering dome, surmounted by ornament. Body pear-shaped, topped with decorated disk-like ornament, and with flattened sphere at bottom. Shaft diagonally truncated at bottom, so as to fit a typical Iraqi Torah case. Hebrew dedicatory inscription: "Wife of the dear wealthy one… Avraham Sisso, may the Lord maintain and protect him, in the month of Nissan 5654 [1894]." Height: 17 cm. No chains and bells.
For comparison, see: The Israel Museum Collection, item no. B86.0167; The Stieglitz Collection: Masterpieces of Jewish Art, item no. 17.
2. India, [late 19th century]. Torah finial of Oriental (Mizrahi) type, stout and heavy. Head shaped like inverted calyx of flower, surmounted by tapering knop. Body pear-shaped, topped with two disk-like ornaments. Suspended from lower disk are chains with heavy, droplet-shaped ornaments at their ends that chime like bells. Stout shaft. Height: 20 cm.
For comparison, see: Center for Jewish Art, item no. 8192.
Category
India and Burma
Catalogue
Auction 81 - The Wily Lindwer Collection
July 13, 2021
Opening: $1,200
Unsold
Heart-shaped dedicatory plaque ("tass"), suspended so as to overhang a Torah ark curtain. Iraqi-Jewish community of Rangoon, Burma (today Yangon, Myanmar), 5693 [1933].
Sheet silver, cut, repoussé, and stamped.
Hebrew dedicatory inscription: "This is the plaque and Torah ark curtain [dedicated to] the elevation of… Shaul Elya Avraham Sofer may he rest in Eden [having] passed away on the Holy Sabbath / 12th of the month of Nissan 5693 [1933] / aged 55 years / may his soul be bound up in the bond of everlasting life." At the bottom of the plaque, encircling and inside a Star of David, is the Hebrew inscription giving the name of the "Synagogue… Musmeah Yeshua in the City of Rangoon." The two Hebrew initials of this synagogue appear inside two small Stars of David at the top of the plaque.
The Musmeah Yeshua ("Matzmiach Yeshua") Synagogue is the last surviving Jewish house of worship in the Lower City of Yangon, and, for that matter, the lone surviving synagogue in all of Myanmar. Established in 1857, it is nestled between private shops on a small street in the vicinity of the city center, and continues to serve the remaining members of Myanmar's tiny Jewish community, most of them descendants of Sephardic Iraqi Jews.
Length: 23.5 cm. Width: 21 cm. Good condition.
See also item nos. 121, 192.
Sheet silver, cut, repoussé, and stamped.
Hebrew dedicatory inscription: "This is the plaque and Torah ark curtain [dedicated to] the elevation of… Shaul Elya Avraham Sofer may he rest in Eden [having] passed away on the Holy Sabbath / 12th of the month of Nissan 5693 [1933] / aged 55 years / may his soul be bound up in the bond of everlasting life." At the bottom of the plaque, encircling and inside a Star of David, is the Hebrew inscription giving the name of the "Synagogue… Musmeah Yeshua in the City of Rangoon." The two Hebrew initials of this synagogue appear inside two small Stars of David at the top of the plaque.
The Musmeah Yeshua ("Matzmiach Yeshua") Synagogue is the last surviving Jewish house of worship in the Lower City of Yangon, and, for that matter, the lone surviving synagogue in all of Myanmar. Established in 1857, it is nestled between private shops on a small street in the vicinity of the city center, and continues to serve the remaining members of Myanmar's tiny Jewish community, most of them descendants of Sephardic Iraqi Jews.
Length: 23.5 cm. Width: 21 cm. Good condition.
See also item nos. 121, 192.
Category
India and Burma
Catalogue