CONTINENTAL SILVER CHANUKAH LAMP.
AUCTION 2 |
Tuesday, June 03rd,
1997 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art Including Property from a Dutch Private Collector and the Late T. Nachum Gidal
Lot 32
CONTINENTAL SILVER CHANUKAH LAMP.
circa 1900
Est: $25,000 - $30,000
Later cast of a 19th century model.
The only prior appearance of this extraordinary lamp at auction in recent years was an earlier example, see: Sotheby’s, Jewellery and Judaica, Tel Aviv, 27th April 1989, lot 574. Although this was found with the servant-light, it too lacked the base.
Narkiss (no. 174) depicts a lamp of this design that similarly lacks the servant-light. His attribution of date is erroneous.