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Lot 374 Dα

A Torah crown

Auction 1208 - overview Cologne
17.11.2022, 14:30 - Decorative Arts - Sculpture Bronze Furniture Textiles
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.500 €
Result: 1.197 € (incl. premium)

A Torah crown

Silver plated brass and sheet iron crown flanked by two pairs of lions, with floral decor and stag's head appliques that would presumably originally have held bells in their mouths. The smaller upper crown with six small models of doves in flight. Wear to the silver plating, some bells lost, soldered repairs and two losses to the antlers, a drilled hole in the top, the baluster finial slightly warped. H 32.5 cm.
Attributed to Eastern Europe, 19th C.

Provenance

Private ownership, Berlin.

Literature

Cf. cat. Monumenta Judaica. 2000 Jahre Geschichte und Kultur der Juden am Rhein, Cologne 1964, cat. no. E 343, for a similar Torah crown with Berlin hallmarks.
Cf. cat. Judentum in Wien. Sammlung Max Berger, Vienna 1988, cat. no. 1/3.4, for a similar silver gilt example by Mayerhofer and Klinkosch in Vienna, which may also have been based on an older traditional design.
Cf. also a very similar example in the Jüdischen Museum Westfalen in Dorsten.