ATTRACTIVE PARTIALLY GILT SILVER HANUKKAH LAMP. Warsaw,1860; Master: Pogorzelski.

On four intricate cast feet, tiered base with slightly bombe front supports eight oil cups on rounded bases. Before back wall, cut out and embossed lions rampant grasp palm tree at either side. Back wall is rectangular with three-lobed top; applique vines with grapes and leaves along top; at center, embossed shield with applque circlet of birds. Center of top bears embossed gilt coronet. At top back, hook for hanging. Servant light slides into channel at viewer's right; on oth other side, miniature pitcher slides into channel. Ring with cast gilt bird slides into channel at center. Crown and palm trees partially gilt. Engraved in Hebrew on the bottom: "Crakow -- Nathan Feitel." Marked on back, base, handle of servant light, bird ring and on back hook. H: 285mm.

Jan Pogorzelski was one of the Jewish silversmiths active in Warsaw in the mid-19th century. Certain design features of this lamp, such as the lions and palm trees, gravevines, and shield, were desirable at the time; see National Museum of Warsaw Catalogue, Judaica (1993) no. 278, p. 259, and no. 293, pl. 270. A very similar lamp, including the bird on a ring, appears in A. Kantsedikas, Masterpieces of Jewish Art, Vol. 2 Moscow, (1990), Bronze, last page of Hanukkah lamps.