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Kiddush Cup
French (Paris)
1722
Medium/Technique
Silver
Dimensions
Height x diameter: 9.5 x 8.1 cm (3 3/4 x 3 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Charles and Lynn Schusterman Collection
Accession Number2013.912
ClassificationsSilver
DescriptionThis Kiddush cup was donated to the young Anselm Salomon von Rothschild of Vienna for his 13th birthday, his Bar Mitzvah, by his Rabbi on 5th February 1816. The cup was made almost a century earlier in Paris.
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Inscriptionsin Hebrew: "Remember the Shabbat and keep it holy. To Shlomo (Salomon) Anselm from his Rabbi on 6th of Sh'vat 5576" (5th February 1816)
The first sentence is the 4th commandment (Exodus 20:8)
The first sentence is the 4th commandment (Exodus 20:8)
Provenance1816, presented to Anselm Salomon von Rothschild (b. 1803 –d. 1874), Vienna. 1995, private collector, Switzerland; April 23, 1995, anonymous (Swiss private collector) sale, Sotheby’s, Tel Aviv, lot 227, to Charles and Lynn Schusterman, Tulsa; 2013, gift of Lynn Schusterman to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 25, 2013)