Property from the Ernest and Erika Michael Collection.
An American Silver and Enamel Torah Shield, Chava and Ludwig Wolpert, Tobe Pascher Workshop, New York, Circa 1960-65
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
the circular shield pierced with Hebrew inscription centering colored enamels representing the twelve Tribes, on the model of the High Priest's breatplate, all on blue enameled copper backing, signed Tobe Pascher Workshop, Jewish Museum New York
diameter 9 in.
22.8 cm
Sotheby's Jerusalem, 24 May, 1987, lot 220.
The inscription is from the blessing of Moses to the tribe of Levi:
“And of Levi he said:
Let Your Thummim and Urim
Be with Your faithful one”
(Deut. 33:8)
Another Torah Shield of this model, on a dark blue ground, is illustrated in Abram Kanof, Jewish Ceremonial Art and Religious Observance, 1980, p. 231, color plate 24.
An example on a deep red enamel ground, dated to 1960, is in the Jewish Museum, New York, JM 48-64, Gift of the Abram and Frances Kanof Collection, see https://collections.thejewishmuseum.org/collection/19093-torah-shield . It was shown in Ludwig Yehuda Wolpert, A Retrospective. Exh. cat. New York: The Jewish Museum, 1976.
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