Late 19th Century German Silver Hanukkah Lamp

A beautiful, silver-plated Hanukkah lamp made in the United States. Typical of late 19th century revivalism in Judaica, the lamp is designed in a combination of styles such as the rococo scrollwork and diamond pattern and the Gothic niches...

A late 19th century brass casted Hanukkah lamp made in Algeria. The lamp is made of three central parts: its body, a tray for placing the oil candles, and a holder for the servant li...

Antique Hanukkah lamp, cast brass, rivets, Algeria, circa 1880. Crescent-shaped back plate, with eight gates, a vase with flowers, apertures in veget...

Handcut strips of silver that have been bent into curvilinear shapes, with semicircle of candle-sockets, complete with drip-pans. A cast-made pair of birds, appearing to be ducks or geese, flank the servant light, while at top as the finial, a large casting of a hen or rooster. While this overall form of lamp is known as hailing from Iraq, we cannot locate any other Iraqi lamps featuring the animals displayed on our example. Birds such as peacocks were widely used in Iraqi and other Middle-Eastern and North African Chanukah lamps, however the usage of the animals featured on our lamp likely have more to do with the surrounding Islamic culture than revealing any meaning in Judaism, which is typical overall for many motifs found on Jewish ritual...

Beautiful old crocodile vanity and necessaire case, with eight jars in facetted glass and silver lids, one box in silver, several brushes and combs in silver, inkwell in silver, perfume container in silver and glass, travel clock, lipstick container...

Late 19th-Century Art Nouveau Silver Pendant Material: Silver Dimensions: 4 x 2 x 1 cm An enchanting late 19th-century Art Nouveau silver pendant, gracefully capturing the essence o...

Antique stereoscopic table viewer used in brothels, to view erotic images printed on paper for a fee. This device consists of a parallelepiped in fruit wood painted black, with the s...

Architecture game constructions with 56 colored stones inside a wooden box made in the laboratory of Dr. Richter Rudolstadt Thüringe in the late nineteenth century. The box is comple...