A POLISH SILVER CHANUKKAH LAMP

MARK OF ANTONI RIEDEL, WARSAW, 1893

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A POLISH SILVER CHANUKKAH LAMP
Mark of Antoni Riedel, Warsaw, 1893
On a rectangular plinth on four pad feet, the cartouche formed backplate chased and repoussé with foliate scrolls and surmounted by a crown with lion supports, centering an applied Menorah between two columns, the plinth with two palm trees and lion supporters and animals, with a row of eight oil fonts on eagle supports, fitted with a servant lamp, marked on base, backplate, oil fonts, applied elements and central bird
11¾in. (29.9cm.) high; 28oz. (883gr.)

来源

Important Judaica, Sotheby's, Tel Aviv, April 15, 1998, lot 137

拍品专文

Antoni Reidel was active from 1878-1910. This lamp bears both his maker's mark, A. Reidel, and his workshop mark, a stirrup-iron.

For similar but less elaborate Chanukkah lamps by Riedel, see Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie, Judaica, Warsaw, 1992, figs. 283, 289, 292, and 293.