Single Leaf – After-Blessing Over Wine and Mezonot Foods – Hand-Colored Engraving, Depicting King David and King ...

Single Leaf – After-Blessing Over Wine and Mezonot Foods – Hand-Colored Engraving, Depicting King David and King Solomon, 18th Century

After-blessing over wine and mezonot foods. Single leaf (engraving), with the text of the Me'Ein Shalosh blessing, featuring the figures of King David and King Solomon. [Presumably Germany, late 18th century / ca. 1800].
Engraving on paper, hand-colored.
Text of the Me'Ein Shalosh blessing, recited after eating certain foods (including the seven species and wine), printed in the center of the leaf; engraved in stylized script. The text is set in an architectonic border formed by a pair of lions crouching on large columns, bearing an ornamented medallion. Depicted in the upper medallion is a family (in contemporary dress) sitting at the Shabbat table. The text is flanked by the figures of King David holding a harp, and King Solomon holding a scepter in one hand and a plaque inscribed "The Book of Mishlei…" (in Hebrew and German) in the other. The lower medallion features an illustration portraying the blessing of the moon ceremony, with a figure with angel wings, standing in a field pointing at the moon.
No other copies of this leaf are known to us.

41X32.5 cm. Overall good condition. Stains, folding marks and creases. Tears, including open tears (affecting illustrations), professionally restored.

Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, 038.011.024.
According to the owner's testimony, the leaf was found in the Westheim genizah (Germany).