MOSHE OVED MEMORIAL SCULPTURE.

c. 1950

Six-candled, bronze-casted lamp memorializing the Six Million Jews who perished in the Holocaust. Biomorphic phoenix-like backplate metaphorically embraces the symbolic candles which rest upon an open Torah Scroll. Signed by artist in Hebrew on base. 4.5 x 6.75 inches.

Moshe Oved (aka Morris Goode / Gudak, 1883-1958), poet and master jeweler, was a native of Skepe, Poland, who immigrated to London in 1903. He amassed a wonderful collection of ancient jewels and objets and cultivated an admirable and discerning following of clients (including Queen Mary herself) drawn to his celebrated little shop “Cameo Corner,” tucked just behind the British Museum. Always artistically oriented, Oved was a founding member of the Ben Uri Society in London; he also sculpted a series of Jewish ritual objects alongside designs of his own extremely original jewelry. See: EJ, Vol. XII, cols. 1528-29. For a similar example, see Kestenbaum & Company, June 26th, 2014, Lot 347.