Subasta Bidspirit | A Highly Important, Parcel Gilt,

A Highly Important, Parcel Gilt, Silver Hanging Hanukkah Lamp, By Lopienski Brothers, Warsaw, Late 19th Century - In the form of an elaborate Torah ark, derived from those of the Polish synagogues of the 18th century, this lamp is composed of a parcel gilt, pierced, silver repoussé sheet, mounted on a gilt silver back. The central part, composed of two hinged doors revealing an engraved Decalogue, flanked by two sets of coiled columns and topped by two stories and a shell finial. Below is an openwork balcony with a row of eight oil containers in the form of leaping lions. The pierced sheet is adorned throughout with scrolls and a range of bestiary animals: unicorns, lions, birds of paradise, peacocks, eagles and winged griffins. Fully marked in three places. Height: 58 cm, width: 32.5 cm Weight: approx. 6 kg. Condition: Good, mising servant light. Literature: For a very similar lamp and one of the earliest examples of this type of menorah: Braunstein, Susan “Five Centuries of Hanukkah Lamps from the Jewish Museum: A Catalogue Raisonné” New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004, p. 122-123