A PAIR OF IMPORTANT DUTCH PARCEL-GILT AND FILIGREE SILVER TORAH FINIALS (RIMMONIM)

EARLY 18TH CENTURY, APPARENTLY UNMARKED EXCEPT FOR LATER DUTCH CONTROL MARK.

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A PAIR OF IMPORTANT DUTCH PARCEL-GILT AND FILIGREE SILVER TORAH FINIALS (RIMMONIM)
Early 18th century, apparently unmarked except for later Dutch control mark.
Tower-form, each on cylindrical socket with fluted knop above, the body with four graduated hexagonal turrets, each turret with six pendant bells within filigree arches, with columns at the angles and set within an openwork hexagonal gallery with detachable urn finials, surmounted by a crown with bud finial (three urn finials and one bell lacking, some bells replaced)--16 3/4in. (42.5cm.) high, 63oz. (2)

Provenance

Michael M. Zagayski, Parke-Bernet, November 23, 1955, lot 185
From the collection of Jacob Michael, Christie's, New York, October 25/26, 1982, lot 161

Exhibited

The Silesian Museum of Handicraft and Antiques, Breslau, 1929, no. 204 The Jewish Museum, New York, Loan Exhibit, 1958

Lot Essay

See C. Roth, Jewish Art, Israel, 1961, p. 322, where he states, "The type which prevailed in Holland after the settlement of the Jews there in the beginning of the seventeenth century was in the form of a baroque turret obviously inspired by the local church steeples; sometimes with as many as four tiers, surmounted by a crown".

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