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Pictorial embroidery with the Sacrifice of Abraham
Israeli (Palestine, Jerusalem)
Early 20th century
Dimensions
46 x 61.5 in
Credit Line
Charles and Lynn Schusterman Collection
Accession Number2013.1004
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Judaica, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
Inscriptionsin Hebrew:
Top: "The sacrifice of Isaac for his descendants today remember with mercy Jerusalem/Don’t send your hand onto the youth/ram"
Bottom: “Here [are] Abraham, Issac, Ishmael, Eliezer sit yourselves here with/fire and the branches the donkey”
Top: "The sacrifice of Isaac for his descendants today remember with mercy Jerusalem/Don’t send your hand onto the youth/ram"
Bottom: “Here [are] Abraham, Issac, Ishmael, Eliezer sit yourselves here with/fire and the branches the donkey”
ProvenanceOctober 25, 2000, anonymous sale, Sotheby’s, Tel Aviv, lot 151, to Charles and Lynn Schusterman, Tulsa; 2013, gift of Lynn Schusterman to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 25, 2013)