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Mezuzah case

Ilya Schor (Polish, born Zolochiv, active in New York, 1904–1961)
about 1950-1960
Medium/TechniqueSilver
DimensionsHeight x width: 15.2 x 3.5 x 1.3 cm (6 x 1 3/8 x 1/2 in.)
Credit LineCharles and Lynn Schusterman Collection
Accession number2013.988
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsMetalwork
ProvenanceApril 12, 1995, anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, lot 128, to Charles and Lynn Schusterman, Tulsa; 2013, gift of Lynn Schusterman to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 25, 2013)
CopyrightCopyright Mira Schor
Musicians in an Interior
Ilya Schor
mid 1940s
The Milkman
Ilya Schor
mid 1940s
Study for Staff Dining Room #239
Ilya Bolotowsky
1940–41
Ellipse
Ilya Bolotowsky
1980
Finial
mid-14th–mid-15th century
second half of 14th–first third of 15th century
Statuettes of two Angels
late 15th–early 16th century
Finial
Unidentified artist
mid-13th century