LOT 399:
Hanukkah Lamp - Morocco - Birds
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Hanukkah Lamp - Morocco - Birds
Hanukkah lamp. Morocco (Probably, Sefrou), [19th century].
Cast brass, chiseled.
On the back plate, which consists of two parts connected with rivets, are openings in vegetal shapes. In the center - a row of arched gates and on top - a window shaped as a horseshoe-arch. On the left and on the right - four birds. A suspension loop on top, with a fleur-de-lis decoration.
Length: approx. 38 cm. Width: 23 cm. Break at the center of the back plate (at upper margins of lower part). Corrosion.
See: Lights in the Atlas Mountains, Hanukkah Menorahs from the collection of J. Shulman in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2002), p. 57, item 27.

