A highly important Dutch silver shabbat lamp and chandelierLeeuwarden, 1789Maker’s...
A highly important Dutch silver shabbat lamp and chandelier
Leeuwarden, 1789
Maker’s mark : Jan de Wal II
This lamp was made by Jan de Wal II, a well-known Dutch silversmith who was born in Holstein and moved to Leeuwarden where he was active during the years 1764 to 1807. The design of this lamp is of typical Dutch type, crafted in the highest quality. Dutch silver shabbat lamps are particularly rare. Only about 15 such lamps are known to date in the world. Only one other silver shabbat lamp of this type - combining the old and the more modern tradition of oil and candle lightning - is known to date. It is in the collection of the Jewish Museum in Berlin (see Vera Bendt, edition Judaïca catalogue ; 1989, Judisches Museum Berlin, item number 202, colour plate page 290). This lamp is currently on a long-term loan to the Jewish Historical Museum of Amsterdam. It is certainly no coincidence that the latter was also produced in Leeuwarden, just a few years earlier than Jan de Wal II’s lamp, in 1783.
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H_105 cm L_55 cm (41 ¹¹/₃₂ x 21 ²¹/₃₂ in)
Below is an extract from the report of Professor Shalom Sabar (The Hebrew University Jerusalem) :
“This Dutch Sabbath lamp is an exquisitely fine and elegant example of Dutch Judaica of the late eighteenth century. This was a transitional period in the history of this Judaic object, whereby our lamp represents the meeting point of older and newer traditions. Accordingly, it retains the practice of using a hanging star-shaped oil container in its typical Dutch transformation using a wide and deep drip bowl, and the more recent tradition of the time of using candlesticks for the Sabbath lights. While its basic shape originates most probably from Italy, its final design and the composition of its various parts presents a special type of Dutch Judaica, markedly different from both the typical German and Italian lamps. This type is characterized by a structure o
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A highly important Dutch silver shabbat lamp and chandelier
Leeuwarden, 1789
Maker’s mark : Jan de Wal II
This lamp was made by Jan de Wal II, a well-known Dutch silversmith who was born in Holstein and moved to Leeuwarden where he was active during the years 1764 to 1807. The design of this lamp is of typical Dutch type, crafted in the highest quality. Dutch silver shabbat lamps are particularly rare. Only about 15 such lamps are known to date in the world. Only one other silver shabbat lamp of this type - combining the old and the more modern tradition of oil and candle lightning - is known to date. It is in the collection of the Jewish Museum in Berlin (see Vera Bendt, edition Judaïca catalogue ; 1989, Judisches Museum Berlin, item number 202, colour plate page 290). This lamp is currently on a long-term loan to the Jewish Historical Museum of Amsterdam. It is certainly no coincidence that the latter was also produced in Leeuwarden, just a few years earlier than Jan de Wal II’s lamp, in 1783.
Fully marked
H_105 cm L_55 cm (41 ¹¹/₃₂ x 21 ²¹/₃₂ in)
Below is an extract from the report of Professor Shalom Sabar (The Hebrew University Jerusalem) :
“This Dutch Sabbath lamp is an exquisitely fine and elegant example of Dutch Judaica of the late eighteenth century. This was a transitional period in the history of this Judaic object, whereby our lamp represents the meeting point of older and newer traditions. Accordingly, it retains the practice of using a hanging star-shaped oil container in its typical Dutch transformation using a wide and deep drip bowl, and the more recent tradition of the time of using candlesticks for the Sabbath lights. While its basic shape originates most probably from Italy, its final design and the composition of its various parts presents a special type of Dutch Judaica, markedly different from both the typical German and Italian lamps. This type is characterized by a structure o
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