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.