$65,175
Fine Polish Silver Torah Crown, probably c. 1840, bearing only French swan import mark, openwork design of staves heavily cast and chased and mounted throughout with stags, lions, birds, fruit, and flowers, bells suspended from leaftip, engraved townscapes to top, (losses), ht. 13 1/4 in. Provenance: Parke-Bernet, lot 119; illustrated Hebraica, pl. IV; illustrated Apollo; A Journal of the Arts , London, Vol. 10, No. 56, August, 1929, p. 82.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2009-05-21