The Schefler Collection (Lots 68-110)
Lot 107*
A large Jewish pale amber glass fragment with menorah
4 December 2025, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£10,000 - £15,000
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A large Jewish pale amber glass fragment with menorah
Circa 5th-6th Century A.D.
12.8cm high, 9.8cm wide
12.8cm high, 9.8cm wide
Footnotes
Provenance:
with Tsadik Kaplan, acquired in London in 2002.
The Property of Tsadik Kaplan, Antiquities, Christie's, New York, 11 June 2003, lot 161.
with Fortuna Fine Arts, New York, acquired from the above sale.
Schefler Collection, New York, acquired from the above.
An intriguing fragment from a previously unrecorded mould that came from a tall square sided vessel of Jewish significance. It's style of decoration and probably terracotta mould panel suggests that it is probably contemporaneous with a series of square and hexagonal vessels with depictions of the Edicule in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre from the 5th Century A.D.. For other unique square vessels with Jewish symbols in the Sholmo Moussaieff Collection cf. M. Newby, Byzantine Mould-Blown Glass from the Holy Land with Jewish and Christian Symbols, (Shlomo Moussaieff, London), 2008, pp. 240-7, nos. 81-3.