FINE GERMAN BRASS SABBATH JUDENSTERN HANGING-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 49
FINE GERMAN BRASS SABBATH JUDENSTERN HANGING-LAMP.
19th century
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
PRICE REALIZED $4,200
Seldom found with individual drip-channels. A rare complete assemblage.
For a visually historic context of this classical lamp, see Moritz Oppenheim’s imagery in his Bilder aus dem Altjüdischen Familien-leben: Plate IX: Sabbath Nachmitag; and with the lamp splendidly lit, Plate XIII: Der Oster-Abend. (See also lot ***)