Spice Tower
mid-19th century
Medium/TechniqueSilver filigree
DimensionsH: 25.5 cm
Credit LineCharles and Lynn Schusterman Collection
Accession number2013.920
On View
Not on viewClassificationsSilver
ProvenanceUntil 1998, by descent within the family of an anonymous owner [see note 1]; November 9, 1998, anonymous sale, Sotheby's, Tel Aviv, lot 12, to Charles and Lynn Schusterman, Tulsa; 2013, gift of Lynn Schusterman to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 25, 2013)
NOTES
[1] According to information in the 1998 Sotheby's catalogue, this nineteenth-century spice tower was "part of a collection first started by Rabbi Naftali Ben Aharon Yitzhak HaCohen, head of the Jewish court in Holland, continued by Mordechai Zoref (?), Jewish 18th Century silversmith (son of the above) and Avraham Ben Daniel and thence by descent to present owner."
NOTES
[1] According to information in the 1998 Sotheby's catalogue, this nineteenth-century spice tower was "part of a collection first started by Rabbi Naftali Ben Aharon Yitzhak HaCohen, head of the Jewish court in Holland, continued by Mordechai Zoref (?), Jewish 18th Century silversmith (son of the above) and Avraham Ben Daniel and thence by descent to present owner."
19th century
Late 18th century
19th century
about 1830
19th century
about 1880
17th–18th century
Late 19th century
1785–1800
1850–1900