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Auction 50 · Lot 398

CONTINENTAL PAINTED SILK MATZAH COVER.

Estimate
$300–$500
Hammer price
$300

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

Description

Painted and printed with central vignette relating to Passover, after the celebrated image of the Five Rabbis in Bnei Braq, anachronistically styled featuring rabbinic personalities of the Middle Ages: Maimonides, Rashi, Baal-Haturim, Yoseph Karo and R. Yitzchak Alfasi. Based on a design by Meir Kundstat as featured in the Schlesinger Hagadah of 1920. Captioned in French and Hebrew. 21 x 21 inches.
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