Passover Seder Set with Plates, Dishes, and Wine Cup
Artist
Ludwig Yehuda Wolpert
Israeli-American, born Germany, 1900–1981
Dateoriginally designed 1930, fabricated 1975
MediumSilver, glass, and ebony
DimensionsOverall H. 9 3/4 in. (24.8 cm)
ClassificationsGlass
Credit LineJudaic Art Fund
Object numberG.76.4.6/a-j
On View
On viewPublished ReferencesChuck Twardy, "A new look for old objects," Raleigh: The News and Observer December 20, 1996), 4E.
Abram Kanof, A Guide to the Judaic Art Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1996), cat. no. 27, pp. 18, 38-39, illus. (b-w) 38.
Abram Kanof, entry for Passover Seder Plates with Dishes and Wine Cup, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 67, illus. (color).
Yonat Shimron, "A Tale of Two Galleries," in Hadassah Magazine (February 2008), mentioned and illus. (color) 41.
Exhibition HistoryGreensboro, NC, Weatherspoon Gallery of Art, "Thirty-eight Judaic Art Items" (NCMA traveling exhibition), October 20-November 6, 1977.
Asheville, NC, Asheville Art Museum, "Thirty-eight Judaic Art Items" (NCMA traveling exhibition), December 13, 1977-January 17, 1978.
New York, Yeshiva University Museum, "Ashkenaz: The German Heritage," January 12-June 30, 1987.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Becoming the NCMA: 10 Decades of Collecting, 1924-2022," June 11-August 21, 2022.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement
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