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Auction 48 · Lot 356
EXCEPTIONAL BEZALEL DECORATED BRASS SHELL CASE.
- Estimate
- $3,000–$4,000
- Hammer price
- Not recorded
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
Publication
Jerusalem, Bezalel School of Art.
Description
Round cylinder, inlaid with silver, engraved, with organic interlace decoration. Upper band with English inscription: "Souvenir of the Conquest of Jerusalem, December 1919.” Appropriate Hebrew inscription within lower band, central depiction of six framed windows. Marked on base: “Krupp, Dusseldorf, 1916.” Height: 10 inches.
summary
This very finely decorated case is particularly important for its historical specificity. See Israel Museum Catalogue, Bezalel of Schatz (1982) no. 933, pp. 80-1 for a very similar example.