Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture
Including: sketches by Ze'ev Raban and Bezalel items, hildren's books, avant-garde books, rare ladino periodicals, and more
July 19, 2022
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Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture
July 19, 2022
Opening: $300
Unsold
Wall lamp made by Zahara Schatz (1916-1999). [Israel, 1950s].
Plexiglass, wire, leaves.
A unique lamp made of Plexiglas embedded with various elements of wire, mesh and leaves that create an abstract composition.
Artist Zahara Schatz (1916-1999), laureate of the Israel Prize for painting and sculpture, was active in Israel and in and the United States. She was the daughter of Bezalel's founder Boris Schatz.
Height: approx. 40 cm. Wired. Good condition.
Plexiglass, wire, leaves.
A unique lamp made of Plexiglas embedded with various elements of wire, mesh and leaves that create an abstract composition.
Artist Zahara Schatz (1916-1999), laureate of the Israel Prize for painting and sculpture, was active in Israel and in and the United States. She was the daughter of Bezalel's founder Boris Schatz.
Height: approx. 40 cm. Wired. Good condition.
Category
Hannukah Lamps, Charity Boxes and Other Objects
Catalogue
Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture
July 19, 2022
Opening: $300
Sold for: $375
Including buyer's premium
Armchair. [Israel, 1950s.]
Iron, red rope and seating cushion.
Louise Schatz (1916-1997), Canadian-born artist and designer, known for her abstract watercolor paintings. Immigrated to Israel in 1951 with her husband, Bezalel Schatz – son of Bezalel's founder Boris Schatz. She was active in the field of applied arts, designing Hanukkah Lamps, baskets, chairs, tables, ceramics, and more. Most of the furniture pieces she designed were composed of an iron frame with woven rope back and woven rope seat, which she made with her own hands (few of the pieces were made by her husband).
Height: 80 cm, max. width: 75 cm. Minor blemishes. Slightly faded.
Provenance: friends of the Schatz family.
Iron, red rope and seating cushion.
Louise Schatz (1916-1997), Canadian-born artist and designer, known for her abstract watercolor paintings. Immigrated to Israel in 1951 with her husband, Bezalel Schatz – son of Bezalel's founder Boris Schatz. She was active in the field of applied arts, designing Hanukkah Lamps, baskets, chairs, tables, ceramics, and more. Most of the furniture pieces she designed were composed of an iron frame with woven rope back and woven rope seat, which she made with her own hands (few of the pieces were made by her husband).
Height: 80 cm, max. width: 75 cm. Minor blemishes. Slightly faded.
Provenance: friends of the Schatz family.
Category
Hannukah Lamps, Charity Boxes and Other Objects
Catalogue
Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture
July 19, 2022
Opening: $300
Sold for: $375
Including buyer's premium
Hanukkah lamp by David Palombo. [Israel, 1950s or 1960s].
Iron, cast and soldered.
Upright Hanukkah lamp. Tapering branches with pointed tips; each set with a small iron disc toward its tip.
Height: 26 cm. Width: 28 cm.
Iron, cast and soldered.
Upright Hanukkah lamp. Tapering branches with pointed tips; each set with a small iron disc toward its tip.
Height: 26 cm. Width: 28 cm.
Category
Hannukah Lamps, Charity Boxes and Other Objects
Catalogue
Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture
July 19, 2022
Opening: $300
Sold for: $375
Including buyer's premium
Hanukkah lamp by David Palombo. [Israel, 1950s or 1960s].
Iron, cast and soldered.
The lamp is comprised of three clusters of three branches each, differing in height; each cluster forms the shape of the Hebrew letter "Shin". Each branch is topped with an oil font.
Height: 41 cm. Width: approx. 31 cm.
Iron, cast and soldered.
The lamp is comprised of three clusters of three branches each, differing in height; each cluster forms the shape of the Hebrew letter "Shin". Each branch is topped with an oil font.
Height: 41 cm. Width: approx. 31 cm.
Category
Hannukah Lamps, Charity Boxes and Other Objects
Catalogue
Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture
July 19, 2022
Opening: $150
Sold for: $225
Including buyer's premium
Small Hanukkah lamp in the form of a fighter waving a flag. Israel, [1950s].
Brass, cast; green patina. Marked on back: "Made in Israel / Pat. no 1064".
Small Hanukkah lamp (possibly made for children). Inscription on base: "Israel". The body of the lamp is shaped as a fighter, with a gun in one hand and a large flag, with two lines and the word "Hanukkah" in between, instead of the Star of David, in the other. Eight tiny oil fonts rest on the upper edge of the flag. The flag pole finial serves as servant light.
Height: 17 cm. Maximum width: 12 cm. Good condition.
Brass, cast; green patina. Marked on back: "Made in Israel / Pat. no 1064".
Small Hanukkah lamp (possibly made for children). Inscription on base: "Israel". The body of the lamp is shaped as a fighter, with a gun in one hand and a large flag, with two lines and the word "Hanukkah" in between, instead of the Star of David, in the other. Eight tiny oil fonts rest on the upper edge of the flag. The flag pole finial serves as servant light.
Height: 17 cm. Maximum width: 12 cm. Good condition.
Category
Hannukah Lamps, Charity Boxes and Other Objects
Catalogue
Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture
July 19, 2022
Opening: $500
Sold for: $2,375
Including buyer's premium
A vase by David Heinz Gumbel (1906-1992). Jerusalem, [ca. 1960].
Silver, repoussé. Marked on base: "Gumbel", "Jerusalem" (Hebrew), and "Sterling".
Engraved presentation inscription around bottom (in English and Hebrew): "Mr. Leonard Mayo, for Distinguished Service to Child Welfare, Presented by Hadassah in Honor of the Henrietta Szold Centennial".
Leonard Mayo (1899-1992) served as president of the International Union for Child Welfare.
Height: 21 cm. Diameter: 8.5 cm. Good condition. Typical tarnish. Minor blemishes.
Silver, repoussé. Marked on base: "Gumbel", "Jerusalem" (Hebrew), and "Sterling".
Engraved presentation inscription around bottom (in English and Hebrew): "Mr. Leonard Mayo, for Distinguished Service to Child Welfare, Presented by Hadassah in Honor of the Henrietta Szold Centennial".
Leonard Mayo (1899-1992) served as president of the International Union for Child Welfare.
Height: 21 cm. Diameter: 8.5 cm. Good condition. Typical tarnish. Minor blemishes.
Category
Hannukah Lamps, Charity Boxes and Other Objects
Catalogue
Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture
July 19, 2022
Opening: $800
Unsold
Metal box inscribed "Private property of Baron C.M. von Rothschild." [First half of 19th century].
Large tin box, painted green, presumably used as a document box. The lid bears an inscription in gilt letters: "Privateigenthum des Herrn Baron C. M. von Rothschild" ("Private property of Baron C.M. von Rothschild)."
Carl Mayer von Rothschild (1788-1855) was the fourth son of Mayer Amschel Rothschild, founder of the dynasty. Carl Mayer managed the Italian branch of the family business.
9.5X18X35 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes. Warping. Blemishes and abrasions to paint. Damage to keyhole. Key missing.
Large tin box, painted green, presumably used as a document box. The lid bears an inscription in gilt letters: "Privateigenthum des Herrn Baron C. M. von Rothschild" ("Private property of Baron C.M. von Rothschild)."
Carl Mayer von Rothschild (1788-1855) was the fourth son of Mayer Amschel Rothschild, founder of the dynasty. Carl Mayer managed the Italian branch of the family business.
9.5X18X35 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes. Warping. Blemishes and abrasions to paint. Damage to keyhole. Key missing.
Category
Hannukah Lamps, Charity Boxes and Other Objects
Catalogue
Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture
July 19, 2022
Opening: $100
Sold for: $125
Including buyer's premium
Cardboard charity box for Agudath Israel's Keren HaTorah organization. [Hungary, 1920s to late 1930s].
Blue cardboard charity box for hanging on the wall. The box is inscribed "Keren HaTorah", "TORA ALAP", and "If not for Torah, Heaven and Earth would not have been established" (Hebrew). The inscriptions surround the organization's emblem – the globe set in the Tablets of the Law, surrounded by other celestial bodies.
The Keren HaTorah organization was founded by Agudath Israel in 1923 to support the yeshivot and Torah institutions in Europe and Palestine. It was active until the outbreak of WWII.
Maximum height: 15.5 cm. Width: 8.5 cm. Depth: 5 cm. Good-fair condition. Minor abrasions and defects. Pieces of paper pasted on the box.
Blue cardboard charity box for hanging on the wall. The box is inscribed "Keren HaTorah", "TORA ALAP", and "If not for Torah, Heaven and Earth would not have been established" (Hebrew). The inscriptions surround the organization's emblem – the globe set in the Tablets of the Law, surrounded by other celestial bodies.
The Keren HaTorah organization was founded by Agudath Israel in 1923 to support the yeshivot and Torah institutions in Europe and Palestine. It was active until the outbreak of WWII.
Maximum height: 15.5 cm. Width: 8.5 cm. Depth: 5 cm. Good-fair condition. Minor abrasions and defects. Pieces of paper pasted on the box.
Category
Hannukah Lamps, Charity Boxes and Other Objects
Catalogue
Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture
July 19, 2022
Opening: $1,000
Sold for: $1,250
Including buyer's premium
Hopital National Israélite Or-Ahaïm [Or HaChaim National Jewish Hospital]. [Istanbul, 1920s].
Charity box for the Or HaChaim Jewish hospital in Istanbul, founded at the end of the 19th century and operating until this day (although it is now a public hospital, no longer owned by the Jewish community). The name of the hospital is printed Ladino and French on the rounded front panel of the box, with an illustration of a nurse taking care of a patient. A flat stick hangs from the side of the box (used for pushing banknotes into the box).
Key enclosed.
12.5X10X6 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Bends.
Charity box for the Or HaChaim Jewish hospital in Istanbul, founded at the end of the 19th century and operating until this day (although it is now a public hospital, no longer owned by the Jewish community). The name of the hospital is printed Ladino and French on the rounded front panel of the box, with an illustration of a nurse taking care of a patient. A flat stick hangs from the side of the box (used for pushing banknotes into the box).
Key enclosed.
12.5X10X6 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Bends.
Category
Hannukah Lamps, Charity Boxes and Other Objects
Catalogue
Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture
July 19, 2022
Opening: $150
Sold for: $238
Including buyer's premium
Cardboard charity box for the retirement home and Bikur Cholim organization of the Budapest Jewish community. Budapest, [ca. 1920s or 1930s].
The name of the organization is printed on the front of the box: "Az Országos Bikur Cholim Betegeket Gyámolító Egyesület és Rákosszentmihályi Szeretetotthona" ("National Bikur Cholim organization and retirement home in the Rákosszentmihályi quarter"). Illustration depicting the organization's activities: a pharmacy, doctor's visit and helping the sick. Prayers (in Hungarian) printed on the two side faces of the box: prayer for the sick and general prayer following charity giving.
12.5X8.5X5 cm. Poor condition. Closed and open tears, affecting text. Pen inscription to back of box.
The name of the organization is printed on the front of the box: "Az Országos Bikur Cholim Betegeket Gyámolító Egyesület és Rákosszentmihályi Szeretetotthona" ("National Bikur Cholim organization and retirement home in the Rákosszentmihályi quarter"). Illustration depicting the organization's activities: a pharmacy, doctor's visit and helping the sick. Prayers (in Hungarian) printed on the two side faces of the box: prayer for the sick and general prayer following charity giving.
12.5X8.5X5 cm. Poor condition. Closed and open tears, affecting text. Pen inscription to back of box.
Category
Hannukah Lamps, Charity Boxes and Other Objects
Catalogue
Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture
July 19, 2022
Opening: $200
Sold for: $425
Including buyer's premium
Three JNF boxes. Hungary and other places, 1930s.
1. "Blue box" bearing a lion set in a Star of David and the words "Keren Kayemet LeYisrael" (Hebrew), with the JNF Hebrew logo. [Palestine? Ca. 1930s]. ("The Blue Box", p. 59).
12.5X10X5 cm. Fair condition. Blemishes to paint. Bends. Lock damaged.
2. "Zion" box – "Short map" box, depicting the map of Palestine without the Negev; Dead Sea indicated. [Hungary, ca. 1930s].
"The Blue Box" catalog does not list a "Zion" box made in Hungary. A very similar box is seen in a calendar for the Hebrew year 5704 designed by Pesach Ir-Shai, published by the JNF in Budapest, 1943.
12.5X9.5X4.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Minor blemishes to paint. Bends. Lock damaged.
3. "Zion" box – "Short map" box, depicting the map of Palestine without the Negev; Dead Sea indicated. [Place of manufacture not indicated, ca. 1930s].
12X9.5X4.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Blemishes to paint. Minor bends.
Literature: Prof. Shaul Ladani and Dotan Shulman, The Blue Box. 2014.
1. "Blue box" bearing a lion set in a Star of David and the words "Keren Kayemet LeYisrael" (Hebrew), with the JNF Hebrew logo. [Palestine? Ca. 1930s]. ("The Blue Box", p. 59).
12.5X10X5 cm. Fair condition. Blemishes to paint. Bends. Lock damaged.
2. "Zion" box – "Short map" box, depicting the map of Palestine without the Negev; Dead Sea indicated. [Hungary, ca. 1930s].
"The Blue Box" catalog does not list a "Zion" box made in Hungary. A very similar box is seen in a calendar for the Hebrew year 5704 designed by Pesach Ir-Shai, published by the JNF in Budapest, 1943.
12.5X9.5X4.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Minor blemishes to paint. Bends. Lock damaged.
3. "Zion" box – "Short map" box, depicting the map of Palestine without the Negev; Dead Sea indicated. [Place of manufacture not indicated, ca. 1930s].
12X9.5X4.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Blemishes to paint. Minor bends.
Literature: Prof. Shaul Ladani and Dotan Shulman, The Blue Box. 2014.
Category
Hannukah Lamps, Charity Boxes and Other Objects
Catalogue
Auction 87 - Jewish and Israeli Art, History and Culture
July 19, 2022
Opening: $300
Sold for: $575
Including buyer's premium
Four collapsible boxes for collecting donations for the Tel Hai fund [Palestine, France and Russia(?), 1930s].
Two boxes were printed in France; one of them is stamped "Printed in France, Tel Hai Fund, Toronto, Canada"; one box was presumably printed in Russia. The name of the fund is printed on it in Hebrew and Russian. A map of Palestine appears on the back, with the portrait of Jabotinsky in the center; the fourth box bears Hebrew text only and is decorated with a menorah instead of the fund's emblem.
The Tel Hai fund was founded in London in 1929, to raise and allocate funds for the Zionist Revisionist movement.
9.5X8 cm on average. Overall good condition. Stains. Minor blemishes.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Two boxes were printed in France; one of them is stamped "Printed in France, Tel Hai Fund, Toronto, Canada"; one box was presumably printed in Russia. The name of the fund is printed on it in Hebrew and Russian. A map of Palestine appears on the back, with the portrait of Jabotinsky in the center; the fourth box bears Hebrew text only and is decorated with a menorah instead of the fund's emblem.
The Tel Hai fund was founded in London in 1929, to raise and allocate funds for the Zionist Revisionist movement.
9.5X8 cm on average. Overall good condition. Stains. Minor blemishes.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
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Hannukah Lamps, Charity Boxes and Other Objects
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