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JUDAICA:- A RARE PARCEL-GILT AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN SILVER SEDER SET FOR THE FESTIVAL OF PASSOVER

MAKER'S MARK A MONOGRAM AND A "12" STANDARD MARK, BUKOVINA, CIRCA 1850

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JUDAICA:- A RARE PARCEL-GILT AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN SILVER SEDER SET FOR THE FESTIVAL OF PASSOVER
MAKER'S MARK A MONOGRAM AND A "12" STANDARD MARK, BUKOVINA, CIRCA 1850
The cauldron-shaped body with a tier of three circular dishes or drawers, to hold the unleavened bread, matzos, each lined in dark blue velvet and released by turning the small ring handles, one side engraved in Hebrew within undulating bands of foliage, the other side engraved with scenes of the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and including views of the drowning Egyptian army when the Red Sea closed on them and also views of Jerusalem, with Empire-style swan side handles, the detachable plate on top applied with six small dishes, each on eagle support, to take the symbolic foods emblematic of the Exodus, with stiff leaf borders, all under a fruiting vine surmounted by a filigree crown with bells dependent and a pine cone and triple acorn finial, the whole raised on a triangular base on paw feet, the centre domed and chased with lambs and foliage, at each corner one of the sacrificial animals, vis. an ox, a goat and a lamb, with flowers and foliage rising up from the base to support the body
21 in. (54 cm.) high, 16 in. (31 cm.) wide
Gross weight 192 oz. (6048 gm.)

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Lot Essay

A Seder set of very similar form is in the collection of the Museum of Art in Ein Harod, Israel. According to Dr. Batsheva Goldman-Ida, a curator at the Tel Aviv Museum who has researched this group of plates, these Seder sets relate to the Ruzhin-Sadigora Hasidim from Bukovina.

The Ruzhin-Sadigora dynasty began in 1850 with Rabbi Avraham Yaakov Friedman, the son of Rabbi Yisrael Friedman of Ruzhin, who fled Russia in the early 1840s to escape persecution and settled in Sadigora where he built a palatial residence and a large synagogue. When he died in 1850, his six sons established their own courts in different towns. His eldest son Rabbi Sholom Yosef Friedman died in 1851, having stayed in Sadigora to continue his father’s court, and was succeeded by the second son Rabbi Avraham Yaakov Friedman (1820-1883) who became known as the Sadigura Rebbe and maintained a grand lifestyle with lavish accoutrements. The quality of this piece reflects the grandeur of that dynastic court.

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