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Auction 81 - The Wily Lindwer Collection
Hanukkah Lamp with Image of Judah the Maccabee – After Fred Kormis
Opening: $150
Sold for: Unsold
Hanukkah lamp, after a design by Fred Kormis. Unidentified manufacturer, Israel, [ca. 1950s].
Brass, cast and turned; applied verdigris patina.
Tall, erect Hanukkah lamp, with plaque in form of shield at center, supported on elevated platform flanked by crouching lions. Shield bears depiction of Judah the Maccabee wielding a javelin, under a Paleo-Hebrew inscription.
This Hanukkah lamp represents a small Israeli version of the sculpture / menorah originally created by the artist Fred Kormis in London in 1950 (see website of the Jewish Museum, New York, item no. JM 22-50).
The artist and sculptor and esteemed medalist Frederick (Fred; Fritz) J. Kormis (1897-1986) fled his native Frankfurt in the early 1930s to escape the Nazis, eventually settling in London.
Height: 20.5 cm. Maximum width: 22 cm. Good condition.
Brass, cast and turned; applied verdigris patina.
Tall, erect Hanukkah lamp, with plaque in form of shield at center, supported on elevated platform flanked by crouching lions. Shield bears depiction of Judah the Maccabee wielding a javelin, under a Paleo-Hebrew inscription.
This Hanukkah lamp represents a small Israeli version of the sculpture / menorah originally created by the artist Fred Kormis in London in 1950 (see website of the Jewish Museum, New York, item no. JM 22-50).
The artist and sculptor and esteemed medalist Frederick (Fred; Fritz) J. Kormis (1897-1986) fled his native Frankfurt in the early 1930s to escape the Nazis, eventually settling in London.
Height: 20.5 cm. Maximum width: 22 cm. Good condition.
Israeliana and Zionism
Israeliana and Zionism