Pair of decorated Tefillin boxes. Memel, East Prussia (today: Klaipėda, Lithuania), 1843.
Silver, cut, soldered and engraved (fully marked, including marks for city, year [the letter A], quality and maker – Evers – Jacob Albrecht Evers); granulation; gilding.
Elegant Tefillin boxes ("Batei Tefillin"). Designed as square boxes, with an openable base, attached with hinges. Decorated with repeating and matching vegetal and geometric patterns, and miniscule silver spherules (granulation). Some of the decorations are nicely gilded.
A pair of Tefillin boxes identical to this pair is documented by Prof. Franz Landsberger in his book "Einführung in die Jüdische Kunst"; the pair documented in Landsberger's book was kept in the collection of the Jewish Museum in Berlin, which was closed down in 1938 and most of whose exhibits were since lost.

Height: 6 cm; length: 9 cm; width: 6.5 cm. Good condition.

Reference and exhibition:

1. Einführung in die Jüdische Kunst, by Franz Landsberger. Berlin, Philo, 1935. Plate 6, pic. 12.
2. Jodendom: een boek vol verhalen. Amsterdam, De Nieuwe Kerk, 2011-2012.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, 018.001.006.
This item is documented on the Center for Jewish Art (CJA) website, item no. 35930.