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A Beautiful Silver Hanukkah Lamp, Brno, Austro-Hungary, 1814 - In ”Sofa” form, the backplate repoussed, punched and engraved with two birds flanking a fruit-cluster urn, fronted by a row of oil pans, resting on four cast paw feet. Fully marked. Height: 14.5 cm, width: 22.5 cm, depth: 6.5 cm Condition: Good Provenance: Shlomo Tepper Collection Literature: This is an early example of this type of lamp. For a discussion of the ”sofa” hanukkah lamp type, see Braunstein, Susan “Five Centuries of Hanukkah Lamps from the Jewish Museum: A Catalogue Raisonné” New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004, p. 93, no. 34