Auction 79 - Judaica from the Finkelstein Family Collection
Silver Dedicatory Plaque – Iraqi Jewish Community of Hong Kong, China, 1894 – Aboudi Family
Opening: $4,000
Estimate: $6,000 - $8,000
Sold for: $5,750
Including buyer's premium
Silver dedicatory plaque ("tass"), suspended so as to overhang a Torah ark curtain ("parokhet"), dedicated to the Yagel Yaakov Synagogue in the Old City of Jerusalem by Habiba Aboudi of the Iraqi-Jewish community in Hong Kong. Hong Kong, China, Nisan 5654 [1894].
Sheet silver, cut, repoussé, and punched.
Round silver plaque with engraved dedicatory inscription (Hebrew) commissioned by Habiba Aboudi of Hong Kong, in honor of her husband, Yitzhak Ezra Aboudi (Isaac Ezra Ellis, prominent member of the Jewish community in Hong Kong; worked for E. D. Sassoon & Co. and served as a gabbai at the Beth El synagogue), and her children, dedicated to the Jerusalemite synagogue Nisan 1st 5654 (1894).
The Jewish congregation of Hong Kong was officially founded in 1857, although the earliest Jewish settlers in the city, members of the Sassoon and Kadoorie families, had already moved their business affairs there some fifteen years earlier, in 1842. By 1882, the entire Sephardic Jewish community of Hong Kong numbered no more than 60 members.
The Yagel Yaakov Synagogue – named after a book by the same name, and its author, Rabbi Yaakov ben Yosef Israel – was originally established in 1888 in the Old City of Jerusalem, adjacent to the Hurva Synagogue.
Diameter: 15 cm. Plaque slightly warped.
Provenance:
1. The Sassoon Family Collection.
2. Sotheby's, A Collection from the Sassoon Family Estate, auction, Tel Aviv, Oct. 25 and 27, 2000, lot no. 24.
Sheet silver, cut, repoussé, and punched.
Round silver plaque with engraved dedicatory inscription (Hebrew) commissioned by Habiba Aboudi of Hong Kong, in honor of her husband, Yitzhak Ezra Aboudi (Isaac Ezra Ellis, prominent member of the Jewish community in Hong Kong; worked for E. D. Sassoon & Co. and served as a gabbai at the Beth El synagogue), and her children, dedicated to the Jerusalemite synagogue Nisan 1st 5654 (1894).
The Jewish congregation of Hong Kong was officially founded in 1857, although the earliest Jewish settlers in the city, members of the Sassoon and Kadoorie families, had already moved their business affairs there some fifteen years earlier, in 1842. By 1882, the entire Sephardic Jewish community of Hong Kong numbered no more than 60 members.
The Yagel Yaakov Synagogue – named after a book by the same name, and its author, Rabbi Yaakov ben Yosef Israel – was originally established in 1888 in the Old City of Jerusalem, adjacent to the Hurva Synagogue.
Diameter: 15 cm. Plaque slightly warped.
Provenance:
1. The Sassoon Family Collection.
2. Sotheby's, A Collection from the Sassoon Family Estate, auction, Tel Aviv, Oct. 25 and 27, 2000, lot no. 24.