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Torah Shield – Dedicatory Inscription from Kreuznach, Germany, 1848
Opening: $1,000
Sold for: $2,375
Including buyer's premium
Torah shield. Dedicatory inscription from Bad Kreuznach, Germany, 5608 [1848].
Silver, cast, repoussé, and engraved (marked with fineness mark 13, and with maker’s mark, probably "Simon" or "Simson", enclosed within a rectangular frame); colored glass stones.
Shield with plain background, to which various ornaments are attached with rivets: a pair of lions, standing tall and erect, flanking and grasping in their paws a large crown bearing colored glass stones, and each standing atop an architectonic column; ornaments in vegetal patterns and a pair of ornaments depicting mythological animals, half-bird and half fish, with bodies partly adorned with leaves, in the lower margin.
In the center is a rectangular compartment for interchangeable plaques (enclosed, two double-sided plaques). A dedicatory inscription is engraved (in Hebrew) above the compartment: "This shield and pointer belong to David / son of Ya’akov of Kreuznach / and to his wife Gitke daughter of / Shimeon of Ehrenbreitstein / and given to the synagogue of Greiznach… 5608 [1848]…"
A bell is suspended from the bottom edge. Suspension chain.
A Jewish community existed in Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz), some 35 kilometers southwest of Mainz, from the second half of the 13th century till WWII. The local Jewish population numbered roughly 461 individuals in 1840.
Height: 25.5 cm. Width: 23.5 cm. Overall good condition. Minor blemishes, warping, and old soldering repairs to edges, and to the ornaments protruding beyond the shield’s borders. Two bells missing.
Torah Ornaments – Torah Crowns, Torah Finials, Torah Shields
Torah Ornaments – Torah Crowns, Torah Finials, Torah Shields