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    Fine Silver, Objects of Vertu and Important Judaica

    Amsterdam

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    1 June 1999

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    • A fine German silver Kiddush c
    Lot 526

    A fine German silver Kiddush cup

    MAKER'S MARK OF HIERONYMUS MITTNACHT (ROSENBERG NR. 263 AND NR. 915), AUGSBURG, 1761-63

    Price realised

    NLG 29,255

    Estimate

    NLG 6,000 - NLG 8,000

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    A fine German silver Kiddush cup
    Maker's mark of Hieronymus Mittnacht (Rosenberg nr. 263 and nr. 915), Augsburg, 1761-63
    Set on a stepped domed circular base with scalloped rim, embossed and chased with a rocaille ornament and fluting, a facetted knopped stem, the octagonal tulip-shaped bowl chased with part fluting beneath a flower-head and rocaille border, inscribed in Hebrew along the slightly spreading lip: Zakhor et Yom ha-Shabbat le-Kadsho.
    12.2cm. (4 3n.) high
    116gr.

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    Literature and exhibited

    Literature

    Chaya Benjamin, The Stieglitz Collection, Masterpieces of Jewish Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1987, p. 286, nr. 195 (for similar Kiddush cup by the same maker, illustrated).


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