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Pair of Torah finials
Jurgen Richels (German, 1664–1711)
German
1688-89
Medium/Technique
Silver, parcel gilt
Dimensions
Overall: 42.9 × 15.2 cm (16 7/8 × 6 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds donated by the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation and Jetskalina H. Phillips Fund
Accession Number2019.634.1-2
CollectionsJudaica
ClassificationsRitual objects
ProvenanceBy about 1910 until about 2000, said to have been in English collections [see note]. About 2000, purchased in London by Joe Levine, New York. June 5, 2019, anonymous (“Serque Collection”) sale, Sotheby’s, New York, lot 79, to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 19, 2019)
NOTE: Four of the bells on these finials were made by the London firm Rosenzweig and Taitelbaum around 1910/1912. According to Sotheby’s, the pair was for sale in the London Silver Vaults around the 1980s or 1990s.
NOTE: Four of the bells on these finials were made by the London firm Rosenzweig and Taitelbaum around 1910/1912. According to Sotheby’s, the pair was for sale in the London Silver Vaults around the 1980s or 1990s.