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Hanukkah Lamp
Possibly Spanish
Probably 17th century, or later
Medium/Technique
Bronze
Dimensions
H: 35.5
Credit Line
Charles and Lynn Schusterman Collection
Accession Number2013.943
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsMetalwork
Inscriptionsin Hebrew "For the commandment is a lamp, the Torah is the light" Proverbs 6:23.
ProvenanceHerman and Rebecca Davidowitz, New York. By 1997, Jacobo and Asea Furman, Santiago, Chile [see note 1]; December 12, 2000, Furman collection sale, Sotheby’s, New York, lot 20, to Charles and Lynn Schusterman, Tulsa; 2013, gift of Lynn Schusterman to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 25, 2013)
NOTES:
[1] Jacobo Furman, Treasures of Jewish Art: From the Jacobo and Asea Furman Collection of Judaica (New York: Hugh Lauter Levin, 1997), p. 153, cat. no. 102, ill. on p. 152, notes on pp. 274-275.
NOTES:
[1] Jacobo Furman, Treasures of Jewish Art: From the Jacobo and Asea Furman Collection of Judaica (New York: Hugh Lauter Levin, 1997), p. 153, cat. no. 102, ill. on p. 152, notes on pp. 274-275.