![Pair of Torah Finials. [North Africa, Tunisia or Libya, late 19th or early 20th century].
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![Pair of Torah Finials. [North Africa, Tunisia or Libya, late 19th or early 20th century].
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Pair of Large Torah Finials – Tunisia or Libya – Salameh Family
Opening: $600
Sold for: $5,250
Including buyer's premium
Pair of Torah Finials. [North Africa, Tunisia or Libya, late 19th or early 20th century].
Silver, cast and engraved (unmarked).
Torah finials exhibiting design influences derived from Italian tower-shaped Torah finials, and adorned with cast appliqués also deriving influences from sacred Italian objects of Judaica.
Each Torah finial is surmounted by a dome topped by a small bud-shaped ornament. The body of each finial consists of two hexagonal tiers. Each side is adorned in vegetal patterns, and bears a cast appliqué at center, in one of seven variations. Large, potato-shaped bases to bodies, adorned in vegetal patterns, surmounting long cylindrical shafts supported on broad dome-shaped bases. Dedicatory inscriptions (Hebrew, almost identical) engraved on both shafts: "Dedicated to the Lord, to the rest of the woman, Madam / Gizella née Salameh may she rest in Eden / Gift of David Salameh and his wife ...".
For similar items, see: The Center for Jewish Art [CJA], Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Item Nos. 3676, 11186, and 9700).
Height: 48 cm. Maximal width: 10 cm. Overall good condition. Slight warping. Piece missing from vegetal ornament surmounting one finial. Some of the appliqués placed upside-down. One appliqué missing, and exchanged with crescent-and-star ornament. One finial with six suspended pendants, while other finial with no original pendants, but with more recent chains with round, Tunisian-style pendants at their ends, instead.
Torah Ornaments – Torah Crowns, Torah Finials, Torah Shields
Torah Ornaments – Torah Crowns, Torah Finials, Torah Shields