LARGE CONTINENTAL SILVER CIRCUMCISION SET.

Suite of items utilized in the Brith Milah ceremony, decorated with trellis and floral motifs. Items bear engraved Hebrew inscriptions of Biblical and liturgical phrases relating to the circumcision ritual. Comprised of: Mohel knife (8.75 inches). * Shield (3 inches). * Ointment bottle with twist lid and wand (7 x 3.5 inches). * Lidded ovoid case (2.5 x 4.25 x 2.75 inches). * Wine beaker: “Shel Berachah” (3.5 inches). * Wine beaker: “Shel Metzitah.” (2.75 inches). All housed in decorative, rectangular chest fixed with handles and set on four legs. Hinged lid featuring low-relief depiction of a Brith Milah ceremony based upon Bernard Picart’s engraving entitled: “Circumcision Ceremony Among Portuguese Jews” from his ‘Ceremonies et Coutumes Religieuses (Amsterdam, 1723). Each item marked (see below).

The large decorative chest as well as each individual item bears several marks, including: A double-headed eagle. Maker’s mark: “BZ.” Date stamp “A.” Mirrored initial letters “VSK.”