Online Auction 014 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
Silver Bracelet – Isaiah's End of Days Prophecy – Ze'ev Raban
Opening: $300
Sold for: $475
Including buyer's premium
Silver bracelet, designed by Ze'ev Raban, inspired by Isaiah's End of Days prophecy. Marked: Jerusalem, ST 925. Jerusalem, [mid-20th century].
The bracelet is composed of eight links. Inscribed on the first link are the verses: "It shall come to pass in the end of the days… and they shall beat their swords into plowshares… The wolf shall dwell with the lamb" (Isiah 2, Isaiah 11) and on the other links appear vignettes based on chapter 11 in the Book of Isaiah: "The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them...".
Length: 18 cm, width: 1 cm.
Literature: Raban Remembered, Jerusalem's Forgotten Master, exhibition catalogue of Yeshiva University, New-York, 1982, item 114, p. 107 (photographed).
See similar bracelet, with English text in Kedem Catalog no. 50, Lot no. 585.
The bracelet is composed of eight links. Inscribed on the first link are the verses: "It shall come to pass in the end of the days… and they shall beat their swords into plowshares… The wolf shall dwell with the lamb" (Isiah 2, Isaiah 11) and on the other links appear vignettes based on chapter 11 in the Book of Isaiah: "The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them...".
Length: 18 cm, width: 1 cm.
Literature: Raban Remembered, Jerusalem's Forgotten Master, exhibition catalogue of Yeshiva University, New-York, 1982, item 114, p. 107 (photographed).
See similar bracelet, with English text in Kedem Catalog no. 50, Lot no. 585.
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