Auction 10 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
Stand for a Yahrzeit Candle
Opening: $1,000
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A stand for a yahrzeit candle [or a Rosh Chodesh candle]. Cast with impressed and etched decorations. German or Poland?, 20th century.
Stand for yahrzeit candle in the shape of a four-cornered altar decorated with Stars of David impressed on its base. On the sides of the base are four plaques with protruding decorations of the constellations of Libra (scales), Pisces (fish), lion and kid. The sides of the stand are made of glass windows. Above the windows are four large Stars of David. At their vertex is another base shaped like and altar.
At the head of the stand is an eagle clutching in its claws the two tablets of law with the Ten Commandments hand-etched (on both sides) and supported by a pair of lions. The tablets of law are standing on a dome shaped like a Star of David.
We have never seen a similar item; presumably this was done by personal order.
Height of base: 18 cm. Maximal height: 37 cm. Width: 16 cm. Weight 3.5kg
Stand for yahrzeit candle in the shape of a four-cornered altar decorated with Stars of David impressed on its base. On the sides of the base are four plaques with protruding decorations of the constellations of Libra (scales), Pisces (fish), lion and kid. The sides of the stand are made of glass windows. Above the windows are four large Stars of David. At their vertex is another base shaped like and altar.
At the head of the stand is an eagle clutching in its claws the two tablets of law with the Ten Commandments hand-etched (on both sides) and supported by a pair of lions. The tablets of law are standing on a dome shaped like a Star of David.
We have never seen a similar item; presumably this was done by personal order.
Height of base: 18 cm. Maximal height: 37 cm. Width: 16 cm. Weight 3.5kg
Last Minute Items - Collection of Letters Sent to Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Ulman Av Beit Din Makó
Last Minute Items - Collection of Letters Sent to Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Ulman Av Beit Din Makó