LARGE BEZALEL SILVER CHANUKAH MENORAH.

<<A specially commissioned Menorah created by Ze’ev Raban. One of only a handful executed in this style.>> A near-identical example of this magnificent Menorah appears in the permanent collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh (object number: 2005.8). A variant was exhibited at the Bernard Museum of Judaica, Congregation Emanu-el, New York “Bezalel Art, Craft & Jewish National Identity” (2012). Another appears in the Michael Jesselson Collection, New York, as illustrated in: Tel Aviv Museum of Art Catalogue, “Ze’ev Raban: A Hebrew Symbolist” (2001) item 91. Finally, see the photographic illustration of Bezalel artist Moshe Chovev lighting the Chanukah lights, Israel Museum Catalogue Inventory List, p. 118.