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Property from the Ernest and Erika Michael Collection.

An Important Dutch Silver Hanging Sabbath Lamp, Harmanus Nieuwenhuys, Amsterdam, 1752

Estimate

150,000 - 200,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

the coronet-form top by William and James Priest, London, 1770.


The central section of seven-pointed star form, topped by a pear-shaped knop and pierced rococo coronet-form top, the drip-pan similarly pierced, marked with town (twice), maker and date letter inside lamp; maker and town on drip pan, maker's mark on screw-on shaft of lamp, lower ring of spacer, and ring of drop; full English marks inside crown


height 31 1/2 in.

80 cm

Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling (1832-1911); to his daughter

The Hon. Lillian Helen Montagu, CBA (1873-1963)

Sotheby's Tel Aviv, April 17, 2001, lot 319.

London, Royal Albert Hall, Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition, 1887, no. 1615.

Inventory of Works of Art Settled as Heirlooms by Montagu, First Lord Swaythling, 1919, no. 255