Copper vase decorated with Hebrew letters. Syria, [late 19th or early 20th century].
Copper, repoussé, polychrome enamel.
Broad-rimmed vase, with body tapering downward toward base. Below rim, band with Hebrew letters. Geometric and vegetal patterns, and with Oriental images and bird illustrations.
Height: 15.5 cm. Maximum width: approx. 19 cm.

Incense burner. Syria, [late 19th or early 20th century].
Copper, repoussé and pierced, polychrome enamel.
Incense burner consisting of two parts – a wide-rimmed bowl and a perforated cover, both with vegetal patterns. Cover removable, spherical in shape, with pierced apertures for smoke, arranged to create vegetal pattern, and with inscription in large Hebrew letters: "Ben Porat Yosef".
Height: 14.5 cm. Maximum diameter: 14.5 cm. Fractures and warping to copper. Blemishes to enamel decorations. Upper ornament (at top of cover) missing. Supporting bowl possibly not original or missing its legs or stand.

Two filigree silver amulet cases. Syria, [late 19th or early 20th century].
Silver, parcel gilt, filigree and granulation; glass beads and other beads.
1. Hollow rectangular case. On front, branch-like decorations in delicate gilt filigree and granulation, forming a heart shape. Small droplet-like silver pendants. Two silver coins suspended at end of chain. 40X7 cm. No cover.
2. Long chain with large pendants decorated in silver thread. Three cylindrical amulet cases (two of them small, middle one large), and additional triangular ornament. Small round pendants, also made from silver thread, suspended from chain and from amulet cases. 60X9 cm.
Reference: The Arts and Crafts of Syria: Collection Antoine Touma and Linden-Museum Stuttgart, pp. 98-99.

Two necklaces with amulet cases and triangular pendants. Syria, [late 19th or early 20th century].
Silver, repoussé, engraved, and punched; glass beads and other beads; silver coins.
Two amulets with identical design, specifically a long chain with two cylindrical amulet cases suspended on either side of a large, central, sealed, suspended triangular amulet case. Silver coins or disks suspended from both the amulet cases and the chain. Some of the ornaments inlaid with glass beads or other beads.
Approx. 58X20 cm.; Approx. 46X20 cm.
Reference: The Arts and Crafts of Syria: Collection Antoine Touma and Linden-Museum Stuttgart, pp. 98-99.

Belt and three belt buckles. Syria, [late 19th or early 20th century].
Silver (parcel gilt), filigree and granulation; silver, cast and engraved; beads; cotton fabric.
1. Belt. Made from strap of cotton fabric in shades of white and light brown with twenty identical filigreed silver ornaments sewn on. Elegant buckle, composed of five layers of ornaments, filigreed in vegetal patterns, surmounted by crescent-shaped ornament with inlaid turquoise stones. Three small pendants suspended. Closed with hook (without corresponding loop). Marked (Ottoman hallmarks). 77X11 cm.
2. Small belt buckle, [19th century]. Consists of two identical links, decorated in filigree and granulation and inlaid with red and light blue beads. Closed with hook, covered with small ornament surmounted by bird. 18th- and 19th-century coins suspended from bottom. 13X5 cm.
3. Small belt buckle. Composed of five layers of silver and filigree silver ornaments, with vegetal patterns and with blue bead inlaid in middle. 8X7 cm.
4. Small belt buckle. Consists of two identical droplet-shaped links ("boteh" or paisleys). Decorated in filigree and granulation. Dome-shaped ornament covering hook. 8.5X2.5 cm.
References: The Arts and Crafts of Syria, p. 94; Sephardi Jews in the Ottoman Empire, plates 39-40; A World of Belts, pp. 119-21.