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
Embroidered Work – Site of the Temple – Safed, 1912/13
Opening: $150
Sold for: $188
Including buyer's premium
Illustration embroidered on perforated cardboard depicting the site of the Temple. [Safed], 1912/13.
Colored woolen thread; perforated cardboard.
A work of embroidery with a depiction of the Site of the Temple in the schematic form customarily used by Jewish folk artists in Palestine: an ancient stone wall surmounted by cypress trees and flanked on either side by images representing (once again, in the style typical of local artists) the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aksa Mosque, respectively. The latter images could be interpreted as either representing the Jewish Temple, or filling the space in its absence. The embroidered inscription (Hebrew) at the top reads: "Solomon's School [Midrash Shlomo] Jerusalem, Place of the Temple". Embroidered inscription on bottoms reads "Western Wall" and "year 5672 [1912/13].
Embroidery on perforated cardboard was a form of art that did not demand any formal artistic training, and was therefore popular among local Jewish women, young and old.
Approx. 23X32 cm. Good condition. Tears, including open tears, to edges, not affecting embroidery. Minor stains.
Colored woolen thread; perforated cardboard.
A work of embroidery with a depiction of the Site of the Temple in the schematic form customarily used by Jewish folk artists in Palestine: an ancient stone wall surmounted by cypress trees and flanked on either side by images representing (once again, in the style typical of local artists) the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aksa Mosque, respectively. The latter images could be interpreted as either representing the Jewish Temple, or filling the space in its absence. The embroidered inscription (Hebrew) at the top reads: "Solomon's School [Midrash Shlomo] Jerusalem, Place of the Temple". Embroidered inscription on bottoms reads "Western Wall" and "year 5672 [1912/13].
Embroidery on perforated cardboard was a form of art that did not demand any formal artistic training, and was therefore popular among local Jewish women, young and old.
Approx. 23X32 cm. Good condition. Tears, including open tears, to edges, not affecting embroidery. Minor stains.
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