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Auction 8 · Lot 31
PAIR OF PARTIALLY GILT SILVER TORAH FINIALS Copenhagen, after 1851.
- Estimate
- $7,000–$9,000
- Hammer price
- $4,750
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
Description
On hexagonal tiered shafts, with one knob, hexagonal three-tiered finials, consisting of two gilt tapered sections engraved with crosshatching, surrounded by parapet, with six pendant gilt bells separated by columns; similar top element framed by posts and pendant miniature bells, topped by cast urn finial. Marked near lipped base. (R4, 5606) H: 315mm.
summary
Rimonim of similar architectural form were made in Holland; see Barnett, No.126, Pl. LIV