Pair of Moroccan parcel-gilt Torah finials
19th century
Medium/TechniqueSilver, parcel-gilt
DimensionsHeight: 29.2 cm (11 1/2 in.)
Credit LineJetskalina H. Phillips Fund
Accession number2019.10.1
On View
Not on viewClassificationsRitual objects
ProvenanceBy 1993, Michael and Judy Steinhardt, New York [see note]; April 29, 2013, Steinhardt sale, Sotheby’s, New York, lot 326, to a private collector; December 19, 2018, anonymous (consigned by a private collector) sale, Sotheby’s, New York, lot 10, to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 20, 2019)NOTE: See The Collector's Room: Selections from the Michael and Judy Steinhardt Collection (Hebrew Union College, Jewish Institute of Religion, New York, 1993), p. 12, cat. no. 92, fig. 8.
19th century
14th century
about 1300-1350 and 1541
about 1410–20
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