Auction 81 - The Wily Lindwer Collection
Incense Burner – Syria – "Ben Porat Yosef"
Opening: $300
Unsold
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.
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.
Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Greece, and the Balkans
Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Greece, and the Balkans 