Auction 81 - The Wily Lindwer Collection
Elegant Prayer Shawl Bag – For Rahamim Mahfouda – Morocco
Opening: $1,000
Unsold
Prayer shawl bag ("Sakhara Di'Tzitzith"). Fez or Meknès, Morocco, [early decades of 20th century].
Cut silver (marked), pierced and engraved; velvet and cotton fabric; card.
Prayer shawl bag for Bar Mitzvah boy, decorated on all sides with silver plates, with openwork vegetal patterns, superimposed over maroon-colored velvet fabric. Hebrew inscription on front plate with name of bag's owner: "Rahamim Bar Ya'akov Mahfouda." On back, four decorations in form of Star of David and crescent, and large decoration reminiscent of rose window. Some decorations inlaid with rhinestones. Original shoulder chain.
Height: 19 cm. Length: 26 cm. Width: 5 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes.
Reference: Jewish Life in Morocco, item no. 181; Morocco: Jews and Art in a Muslim Land, items nos. 17-18.
Cut silver (marked), pierced and engraved; velvet and cotton fabric; card.
Prayer shawl bag for Bar Mitzvah boy, decorated on all sides with silver plates, with openwork vegetal patterns, superimposed over maroon-colored velvet fabric. Hebrew inscription on front plate with name of bag's owner: "Rahamim Bar Ya'akov Mahfouda." On back, four decorations in form of Star of David and crescent, and large decoration reminiscent of rose window. Some decorations inlaid with rhinestones. Original shoulder chain.
Height: 19 cm. Length: 26 cm. Width: 5 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes.
Reference: Jewish Life in Morocco, item no. 181; Morocco: Jews and Art in a Muslim Land, items nos. 17-18.
Morocco
Morocco