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Torah Case

Artist Unknown

Date1907/1908 (dedication date)

MediumSilver, partly gilded, wood; textile; carnelian beads (restoration)

DimensionsH. 36 7/8 x Diam. 10 1/2 in. (93.7 x 26.7 cm)

ClassificationsMetal

Credit LineMuseum Purchase, Judaic Art Fund and Museum Purchase Fund

Object numberG.80.3.5

On View

On view

ProvenanceCreated Iraq, 1907/1908. [Moriah Artcraft, Inc., New York]; sold to NCMA, 1980.
Published ReferencesIntroduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 72.

Fran Arrington, "He can turn a tour into a revelation," Raleigh: The News and Observer (December 22, 1992), 1B, illus.

Mark I. Pinsky, "Jewish Gems: North Carolina's unique collection of spiceboxes, seder plates, and silver," The North Carolina Independent SPECTRUM (September 14-27, 1984), 17, illus.

Chuck 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. 1, pp. 14, 20-21; illus. (b-w)14, 20.

Abram Kanof, entry for Torah Case (Tik), in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 63, 64-65, illus. (color) 64-65; detail (color) 62.

Five Artists·Five Faiths: Spirituality in Contemporary Art (exhibition catalogue) (Chapel Hill: Ackland Art Museum, 2004), illus. (color) 15, fig. 8 (catalogue only, not in show.)

Yonat Shimron, "Torah case now has a Torah scroll," The News and Observer (Raleigh, NC), October 8, 2008, 4B, illus. (b-w).
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement

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