Israeli Boxes

Cast bronze Pal-Bell rectangular box with lid. This piece features an indented, ribbed lid with alternating patinated bronze and black stripes...

Mid-Century Modern Verdigris Bronze Trinket Box.

Silver and silver filigree Etrog container, Bezalel School, Jerusalem, circa 1950. The lid is etched with grapes, vines, pomegranates and leaves, decorated with silver filigree on th...

Tin charity box, the "Heichal HaTalmud" Yeshiva, Tel-Aviv, circa 1950. Tzedakah is a Hebrew word commonly translated as charity, however the word is more ...

Hand painted olive wood Etrog box by Bezalel school Jerusalem, circa 1910. Unique octagonal shape. Decorated with a scene of a Jew holding and blessing on t...

Modern sterling silver Etrog container by Arie Ofir, Jerusalem, Israel, circa 1985. Signed on the bottom, "Sterling", "Jerusalem", "Israel", and "Arie Ofir,"...

Silver and silver filigree etrog container, by Yehia Yemini, Bezalel School, Jerusalem, circa 1920. Acid-etched decoration with grapes and vines on the lid, and with pomegranates and leaves on the base, decorated with silver filigree on the lid, above and below the Hebrew text, and around the feet. The central band inscribed in etched inscription: "And you shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, the boughs of thick trees, willows of the brook", The lid signed in etching "Bezalel Jerusalem", and topped with pomegranate shaped finial. Raised on four conic feet. Yehia Yemini Born in 1897 into a family of San'a silversmiths, Yehia Yemini reached Jerusalem with his family at the young age of three. When Bezalel founded its Silver Department In 1908, Yemini became one of its employees, and helped other Yemenites to forge Bezalel's unique synthesis of East and West. After the dismissals of 1914, Yemini joined three groups of Jerusalem craftsmen who specialized in silver crafting in the manner of Bezalel: "Keter," "Kav Lavan," and "Sharar" (directed respectively by Shneior, Ossanovitch and Rabinovitz). Yemini was exceptionally talented and skilled in blending the traditions of Yemenite silver...

Blue Tin charity box, Jerusalem, Israel, circa 1935. Inscribed in Hebrew in the front: "Ramban Zi"a Charity Box, Kolel Viznich." and decorated in the cente...

Yellow tin charity box, Jerusalem, Israel, circa 1950. Inscribed in Hebrew in the front: "Charity center- THE SAVER, named after Rabbi Moshe Yehoshua Eizenbach Z"l, in the Holy city ...

Painted tin charity box, inscribed with Hebrew: "Zokef Kfufim in the Holy city of Jerusalem" Jerusalem, Israel, circa 1950. Tzedakah is a Hebrew word comm...

Painted blue and white tin charity box, circa 1925. Decorated with a Star of David and the map of Israel in Hebrew on one side, and KKL for Keren Kayemet Yisrael, spelled out in Hebrew, on the other side with a handle for collecting. Marked on the side in English and Hebrew "Made in Erez Israel". The Jewish National Fund...

Colorful Tzedaka (Jewish Charity) Box made in Jerusalem, circa 1940. Designed by the Bezalel teacher artist Alfred Zaltsman, whose name appears on the side of the box. The box was d...