Trefoil loop, bulbous shaft with five cast swirl and bead ornaments near top; near base, five candleholders on S-form arms atop 5 pointed star form oil container; drip bowl hangs from base of shaft. H: 500mm.
AUCTION 24 |
Tuesday, June 29th,
2004 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Ceremonial Art and Holy Land Maps Including Ceremonial Art from the Collection of Daniel M. Friedenberg
Lot 340
BRONZE HANGING SABBATH LAMP (JUDENSTERN).
Probably Germany, 18th or 19th century.
Trefoil loop, bulbous shaft with five cast swirl and bead ornaments near top; near base, five candleholders on S-form arms atop 5 pointed star form oil container; drip bowl hangs from base of shaft. H: 500mm.
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
PRICE REALIZED $1,700
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 Berlin Jewish Mueum catalogue (1989), No. 198, p. 299.