Auction 61 - Rare and Important Items
Hanukkah Lamp - Menorah and Blessings of Welcome - Tetouan, Morocco
Opening: $1,000
Sold for: $1,375
Including buyer's premium
Hanukkah lamp. Tetouan, Morocco, [late 19th or early 20th century].
Tin brass, cut, bent and engraved; cast brass, engraved and soldered, chiseling.
The back plate is arched and decorated with a symmetrical vegetal pattern. In its center is the seven-branched menorah surmounted by the Hebrew inscription, "The seven lamps shall give light in front of the lampstand". Flanking the menorah's base are two jugs with Hebrew inscriptions reading "Blessed are you when you enter" and "Blessed are you when you depart". Flanking its top are engraved birds. On both sides are spiraling columns with sharpened crowns. The shamash is set in the middle, above the menorah. The cast row of fonts is placed inside a catch basin. The lamp has two side panels decorated with a symmetrical vegetal pattern. At the top of the lamp is a loop for hanging.
Height: 31 cm. Width: 23.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Bends. Soldering repairs. Loose joints. Missing nails. The hinges connecting the side panels to the lamp are mostly missing and replaced with improvised joints. Small break to catch basin. The hoop usually set inside the hanging loop is missing.
See: North African Lights: Hanukkah Lamps from the Zeyde Schulmann Collection, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Chaya Benjamin. Jerusalem (2002), pp. 34-35.
Tin brass, cut, bent and engraved; cast brass, engraved and soldered, chiseling.
The back plate is arched and decorated with a symmetrical vegetal pattern. In its center is the seven-branched menorah surmounted by the Hebrew inscription, "The seven lamps shall give light in front of the lampstand". Flanking the menorah's base are two jugs with Hebrew inscriptions reading "Blessed are you when you enter" and "Blessed are you when you depart". Flanking its top are engraved birds. On both sides are spiraling columns with sharpened crowns. The shamash is set in the middle, above the menorah. The cast row of fonts is placed inside a catch basin. The lamp has two side panels decorated with a symmetrical vegetal pattern. At the top of the lamp is a loop for hanging.
Height: 31 cm. Width: 23.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Bends. Soldering repairs. Loose joints. Missing nails. The hinges connecting the side panels to the lamp are mostly missing and replaced with improvised joints. Small break to catch basin. The hoop usually set inside the hanging loop is missing.
See: North African Lights: Hanukkah Lamps from the Zeyde Schulmann Collection, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Chaya Benjamin. Jerusalem (2002), pp. 34-35.