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Shabbat Candlesticks

Shabbat Candlesticks

(German, active in Frankfurt, Jerusalem and New York, 1900–1981)
(Israeli born 1935)
1962-63
Medium/TechniqueSilver
DimensionsHeight x width: 38.1 x 10.5 x 8.3 cm (15 x 4 1/8 x 3 1/4 in.)
Credit LineCharles and Lynn Schusterman Collection
Accession number2013.989.1-2
On View
On view
ClassificationsMetalwork
InscriptionsIn Hebrew: I will rejoice in the Lord, my soul will delight in my God” (Isaiah 61:10)
ProvenanceOctober 25, 2000, anonymous sale, Sotheby's, Tel Aviv, lot 184, to Charles and Lynn Schusterman, Tulsa; 2013, gift of Lynn Schusterman to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 25, 2013)
CopyrightReproduced with permission.
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