Auction 82 - Part I - Judaica – Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
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Auction 82 - Part I - Judaica – Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
August 24, 2021
Opening: $400
Unsold
Embroidered Torah mantle, made and donated by Sarah Anav. [Anatolia or the Balkans?], 5635 (1874/1875).
Silk; silk embroidery; silver thread and gold purl embroidery.
Sephardic style burgundy mantle, with an opening at the back, as common in Torah mantles from Anatolia and the Balkans. The mantle is comprised of a rigid, circular upper part, with the skirt hung by a fine cord threaded through loops.
The mantle is adorned with colored floral embroidery on the upper part, skirt and around the edges. A star of David is embroidered on the front, surrounded by the dedication. Yellow pom-pom and tassel fringe.
Height: approx. 96 cm. Diameter: approx. 32.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Pom poms lacking. Minor defects and tears.
Silk; silk embroidery; silver thread and gold purl embroidery.
Sephardic style burgundy mantle, with an opening at the back, as common in Torah mantles from Anatolia and the Balkans. The mantle is comprised of a rigid, circular upper part, with the skirt hung by a fine cord threaded through loops.
The mantle is adorned with colored floral embroidery on the upper part, skirt and around the edges. A star of David is embroidered on the front, surrounded by the dedication. Yellow pom-pom and tassel fringe.
Height: approx. 96 cm. Diameter: approx. 32.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Pom poms lacking. Minor defects and tears.
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Jewish Ceremonial Art
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Auction 82 - Part I - Judaica – Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
August 24, 2021
Opening: $1,000
Unsold
Two embroidered silk tallitot. [Italy, 19th century].
Silk; silk embroidery and silverwork.
1. Striped tallit in shades of pearl and blue; corners reinforced in silk with floral embroidery and silver initials "יא"ח" in the center.
Approx. 230X103 cm. Good condition. Minor defects. Stains.
2. Striped tallit in shades of pearl and light-blue; floral bouquets embroidered in the four corners. Center edge embroidered (in place of neckband) with the initials "ML" within a floral and foliate border.
Approx. 206X108 cm. Minor defects and tears. Minor stains. Tear to edge where neckband would have been (6 cm long), with obvious repair. Area of tear reinforced with fabric on reverse.
Provenance: The Finkelstein Family collection.
Silk; silk embroidery and silverwork.
1. Striped tallit in shades of pearl and blue; corners reinforced in silk with floral embroidery and silver initials "יא"ח" in the center.
Approx. 230X103 cm. Good condition. Minor defects. Stains.
2. Striped tallit in shades of pearl and light-blue; floral bouquets embroidered in the four corners. Center edge embroidered (in place of neckband) with the initials "ML" within a floral and foliate border.
Approx. 206X108 cm. Minor defects and tears. Minor stains. Tear to edge where neckband would have been (6 cm long), with obvious repair. Area of tear reinforced with fabric on reverse.
Provenance: The Finkelstein Family collection.
Category
Jewish Ceremonial Art
Catalogue
Auction 82 - Part I - Judaica – Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
August 24, 2021
Opening: $300
Unsold
Small copper Havdalah plate decorated with verses and Stars of David, by Heinrich Schwed. Munich, [ca. 1924].
In the center of the plate, the traditional wishes "Gut Woch" (a good week) and "Gut Yahr" (a good year), surrounded by the verse "The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes" (psalms 19:9); and a Star of David surrounded by the Hebrew vowel points. The rim of the plate is decorated with Stars of David. Marked "HSM" (Heinrich Schwed, Munich).
Heinrich Schwed (1880-1962) was born in Reichmannsdorf, Germany. In 1924, he opened in Munich a shop for the trade of handcrafted items, followed by a craft workshop. Schwed continued producing decorative plates, advertising signs and other items until 1937, when his business was Aryanized by the Nazis and he himself escaped Germany with his family and found refuge in Argentina.
Diameter: 11 cm. Good condition. Bend. Marked "11" on base.
In the center of the plate, the traditional wishes "Gut Woch" (a good week) and "Gut Yahr" (a good year), surrounded by the verse "The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes" (psalms 19:9); and a Star of David surrounded by the Hebrew vowel points. The rim of the plate is decorated with Stars of David. Marked "HSM" (Heinrich Schwed, Munich).
Heinrich Schwed (1880-1962) was born in Reichmannsdorf, Germany. In 1924, he opened in Munich a shop for the trade of handcrafted items, followed by a craft workshop. Schwed continued producing decorative plates, advertising signs and other items until 1937, when his business was Aryanized by the Nazis and he himself escaped Germany with his family and found refuge in Argentina.
Diameter: 11 cm. Good condition. Bend. Marked "11" on base.
Category
Jewish Ceremonial Art
Catalogue
Auction 82 - Part I - Judaica – Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
August 24, 2021
Opening: $1,000
Unsold
Hanukkah lamp decorated with a menorah, columns and verses. Tétouan (Morocco), [19th century?].
Brass; pierced, bent and cast; rivets.
Arched openwork backplate, depicting a seven-branched menorah; a cornice inscribed with the verse "the seven lamps shall cast their light toward the face of the menorah" (Numbers 8:2) surmounts the menorah; topped in turn by a flower with a square hole in the center for the shamash (missing), the whole arrangement flanked by a pair of birds and shields engraved with the verse "You shall be blessed when you come" and "You shall be blessed when you depart" (Numbers 28:6). Backplate framed with pair of Solomonic columns surmounted with stylized onion domes. Foliate openwork side panels. Row of eight cast oil fonts with pinched spouts set over oil basin. Suspension loop at top of backplate.
Height: 30 cm. Width: 24 cm. Depth: approx. 7 cm. Good-fair condition. Numerous soldering repairs. Breaks and bends. Missing shamash.
Provenance: the Finkelstein Family Collection.
Brass; pierced, bent and cast; rivets.
Arched openwork backplate, depicting a seven-branched menorah; a cornice inscribed with the verse "the seven lamps shall cast their light toward the face of the menorah" (Numbers 8:2) surmounts the menorah; topped in turn by a flower with a square hole in the center for the shamash (missing), the whole arrangement flanked by a pair of birds and shields engraved with the verse "You shall be blessed when you come" and "You shall be blessed when you depart" (Numbers 28:6). Backplate framed with pair of Solomonic columns surmounted with stylized onion domes. Foliate openwork side panels. Row of eight cast oil fonts with pinched spouts set over oil basin. Suspension loop at top of backplate.
Height: 30 cm. Width: 24 cm. Depth: approx. 7 cm. Good-fair condition. Numerous soldering repairs. Breaks and bends. Missing shamash.
Provenance: the Finkelstein Family Collection.
Category
Jewish Ceremonial Art
Catalogue
Auction 82 - Part I - Judaica – Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
August 24, 2021
Opening: $500
Unsold
Charity box to benefit the poor of Eretz Israel. The Netherlands, [ca. 1900].
Small red charity box, with a lithographic label. Inscribed "Bedenkt [Milddadig] / uw noodlijdende / geloofsgenoten / in het / Heilige land" ["remember your Jewish brethren in the Holy Land generously"; Hebrew inscription citing verses concerned with remembering Jerusalem and the importance of charity. Sites in Eretz Israel are depicted on the other three sides: the Temple site, the Cave of the Patriarchs, Rachel's tomb, the Rambam's gravesite and another site (unidentified).
A similar box with an identical label exists in the Amsterdam Jewish Museum collection, item no. M007645.
10.5X7.5X5.5 cm. Fair condition. Defects and many open tears to label, affecting text and images. Stains to label. Defects and bends to box. Losses to paint.
Small red charity box, with a lithographic label. Inscribed "Bedenkt [Milddadig] / uw noodlijdende / geloofsgenoten / in het / Heilige land" ["remember your Jewish brethren in the Holy Land generously"; Hebrew inscription citing verses concerned with remembering Jerusalem and the importance of charity. Sites in Eretz Israel are depicted on the other three sides: the Temple site, the Cave of the Patriarchs, Rachel's tomb, the Rambam's gravesite and another site (unidentified).
A similar box with an identical label exists in the Amsterdam Jewish Museum collection, item no. M007645.
10.5X7.5X5.5 cm. Fair condition. Defects and many open tears to label, affecting text and images. Stains to label. Defects and bends to box. Losses to paint.
Category
Jewish Ceremonial Art
Catalogue
Auction 82 - Part I - Judaica – Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
August 24, 2021
Opening: $6,000
Unsold
Piece of stone, only remnant of the original gravestone of Joseph's Tomb in Shechem (Nablus).
The present stone was taken from the site of Joseph's Tomb in Shechem, after it was set on fire and destroyed by Palestinian rioters. The grave's stone marker was then completely shattered, and its fragments later disposed of. The present stone was taken before the site was cleared out, and is the last remnant of the gravestone which marked Joseph's Tomb since the Ottoman period. The stone was rescued by R. Nachman (Nachi) Weiss, a Breslov Chassid and prominent activist of behalf of Joseph's Tomb, and he guarded it for many years.
Background:
In 1868, the British consul in Damascus, Edward Thomas Rogers, built a structure with a dome over Joseph's Tomb. The building was later renovated in 1894-1900, and the adjacent rooms were added, with the funding of Abdul Hamid II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
For over a century, the structure over the tombstone stood, serving as a pilgrimage site for Jews, Samaritans, Christians and Muslims alike.
After the Oslo Accords, Joseph's Tomb, which stands in the center of the Balata refugee camp, became a target for attacks. With the outbreak of the Second Intifada, thousands of Palestinian residents of Nablus went and set the Tomb complex ablaze, while the Israel Defense Force fled the site under fire - abandoning Jewish control of the site since 1967. Shortly thereafter, the site was renovated under the orders of Yasser Arafat, but the place remained desolate for close to two years. Only in 2002, under Operation Protective Shield, did large groups of Breslov Chassidim begin to pay clandestine visits to the site, and the IDF later allowed entry to organized groups.
In July 2002, terrorists placed an explosive device in the room of the tomb, and the structure was severely damaged from the blast. Three months later, on Yom Kippur 2002, the structure was again set alight and burnt for 24 hours straight, due to huge amounts of kerosene and chemicals poured onto it. The site of the Tomb was destroyed, and throughout that winter, Palestinian rioters continued vandalizing the place, gradually breaking the stone marker until they destroyed it completely.
R. Nachman (Nachi) Weiss, a Breslov Chassid and leading activist on behalf of Joseph's Tomb, was one of the regular visitors to the site, and he documented these events with his camera. On one of the Breslov infiltrations to the site, Weiss decided to take one stone from the remnants of the shattered gravestone, which would serve as a souvenir of the gravestone where Jews had prayed for generations.
Some 8 years after it was abandoned, on Chanukah 2008, a group of Jewish workers alongside workers of the Palestinian council of Nablus entered the site and began clearing out all garbage and waste in preparation for its renovation. Throughout the night, Joseph's Tomb was cleared of waste, stones, scraps of metal and cars, which the council trucks evacuated to the central landfill. This was done without any governmental or organizational supervision, and without distinguishing between the large amount of waste and the fragments of the actual stone marker. Thus, the gravestone was discarded and this stone is actually the only remnant of the original gravestone.
For years, Weiss guarded the stone in a safe, and dreamed of setting it in the unfinished square cubit on the wall of his home in remembrance of the destruction of the Temple. Yet recently, Weiss declared his intention to sell this stone, to fund the publication of his upcoming book.
Stone: approx. 20X8X3.5 cm. Inscribed: "Incursion in Nablus, Adar II 2003, with Moshe Berber and Breslov Chassidim, at 6:30 am".
Enclosed: Book, Kever Yosef - Kach Nifretzah HaDerech by Nachman Weiss, Jerusalem 2018.
The present stone was taken from the site of Joseph's Tomb in Shechem, after it was set on fire and destroyed by Palestinian rioters. The grave's stone marker was then completely shattered, and its fragments later disposed of. The present stone was taken before the site was cleared out, and is the last remnant of the gravestone which marked Joseph's Tomb since the Ottoman period. The stone was rescued by R. Nachman (Nachi) Weiss, a Breslov Chassid and prominent activist of behalf of Joseph's Tomb, and he guarded it for many years.
Background:
In 1868, the British consul in Damascus, Edward Thomas Rogers, built a structure with a dome over Joseph's Tomb. The building was later renovated in 1894-1900, and the adjacent rooms were added, with the funding of Abdul Hamid II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
For over a century, the structure over the tombstone stood, serving as a pilgrimage site for Jews, Samaritans, Christians and Muslims alike.
After the Oslo Accords, Joseph's Tomb, which stands in the center of the Balata refugee camp, became a target for attacks. With the outbreak of the Second Intifada, thousands of Palestinian residents of Nablus went and set the Tomb complex ablaze, while the Israel Defense Force fled the site under fire - abandoning Jewish control of the site since 1967. Shortly thereafter, the site was renovated under the orders of Yasser Arafat, but the place remained desolate for close to two years. Only in 2002, under Operation Protective Shield, did large groups of Breslov Chassidim begin to pay clandestine visits to the site, and the IDF later allowed entry to organized groups.
In July 2002, terrorists placed an explosive device in the room of the tomb, and the structure was severely damaged from the blast. Three months later, on Yom Kippur 2002, the structure was again set alight and burnt for 24 hours straight, due to huge amounts of kerosene and chemicals poured onto it. The site of the Tomb was destroyed, and throughout that winter, Palestinian rioters continued vandalizing the place, gradually breaking the stone marker until they destroyed it completely.
R. Nachman (Nachi) Weiss, a Breslov Chassid and leading activist on behalf of Joseph's Tomb, was one of the regular visitors to the site, and he documented these events with his camera. On one of the Breslov infiltrations to the site, Weiss decided to take one stone from the remnants of the shattered gravestone, which would serve as a souvenir of the gravestone where Jews had prayed for generations.
Some 8 years after it was abandoned, on Chanukah 2008, a group of Jewish workers alongside workers of the Palestinian council of Nablus entered the site and began clearing out all garbage and waste in preparation for its renovation. Throughout the night, Joseph's Tomb was cleared of waste, stones, scraps of metal and cars, which the council trucks evacuated to the central landfill. This was done without any governmental or organizational supervision, and without distinguishing between the large amount of waste and the fragments of the actual stone marker. Thus, the gravestone was discarded and this stone is actually the only remnant of the original gravestone.
For years, Weiss guarded the stone in a safe, and dreamed of setting it in the unfinished square cubit on the wall of his home in remembrance of the destruction of the Temple. Yet recently, Weiss declared his intention to sell this stone, to fund the publication of his upcoming book.
Stone: approx. 20X8X3.5 cm. Inscribed: "Incursion in Nablus, Adar II 2003, with Moshe Berber and Breslov Chassidim, at 6:30 am".
Enclosed: Book, Kever Yosef - Kach Nifretzah HaDerech by Nachman Weiss, Jerusalem 2018.
Category
Jewish Ceremonial Art
Catalogue