Auction 17 · Lot 554
BRASS SEDER PLATE Bezalel School, Jerusalem, early 20th century: Designer: Zeev Raban
- Estimate
- $2,000–$3,000
- Hammer price
- Not recorded
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
Description
Brass plate with five labeled depressions for ritual foods around central rondel. Border bears five scenes of Jewish people in and leaving Egypt, each labeled with appropriate Hebrew Biblical quotation in small circle; in center, text of Four Questions from the Haggadah. At top, "Bezalel, Jerusalem;" on verso, "Made in Palestine." Diam: 325mm.
summary
For a very similar plate, see Kestenbaum and Company, 16th November, 1999, Lot 23. See also Sotheby's Tel Aviv, May, 1998, No. 36