PEWTER CHARITY BOX. Denmark, 1901.

This unusual charity box was created to replace the older containers of an elite Bikur Cholim Society, Tiferes Jedidim, which had been established in Copenhagen in 1821. A limited number were manufactured. Two Jewish Danish artists cooperated in the design: Siegfried Wagner (1878-1952) who was a respected Danish sculptor, known for his work with Jewish themes. and Mogens Ballin (1872 - 1914), a post-Modernist painter, who worked in Paris and Copenhagen. See EJ III: 596, 612; and see article, Mogens Ballin’s Workstatt, in Dekorativ Kust, Munich, April, 1902, pp. 244 - 250; Weilbach’s Kunsternerleksikon, Denmark, 1947, vol. I, pp 59 - 60 (Ballin); Vol III, 458 - 459 (Wagner.) This charity box is included in the Steinhardt Collection, see Grossman p. 153. Another example of this charity box was sold at Christies, Judaica, June 19 , 1991, Lot 138