Pair of Torah finials. Created by a student in the “New Bezalel”, Jerusalem, ca. 1951. Cut and bent brass. Marked: “Bezalel HaChadash” [New Bezalel]. A rare and unique sample of works created by students in the metal department of New Bezalel directed by Ludwig Yehudah Wolpert and David Heinz Gumbel, pioneers silversmiths of modern Jewish Art in Eretz Israel. See identical Torah finials, made of silver, in the catalogue “Forging Ahead: Wolpert and Gumbel, Israeli Silversmiths for the Modern Age” (curator: Sharon Weiser-Ferguson), The Israel Museum, 2012, p. 149, p. 155. Height: 29 cm, max. width: 10 cm. Good condition. Bends at base and top of one finial. Some corrosion.