Pair of Torah Finials
ArtistAttributed to
Willem Hendrik Rosier
Dutch, Amsterdam, 1707–1775
Datecirca 1765
MediumSilver, brass, partly gilded
Dimensions16 5/8 x 5 1/2 in. (42.2 x 14 cm)
ClassificationsMetal
Credit LinePurchased with funds from Margaret and Douglas Abrams, Marion Meyer-Robboy and Stanley Robboy, Connie C. and Robert D. Shertz, Laura and David Brody, Joan and Kalman Cohen, David C. Falk Sr., Elizabeth Kanof Levine and Ronald Levine, and other Friends of the Judaic Art Gallery
Object number2007.1/a-b
On View
On viewPublished ReferencesImportant Judaica (auction catalogue) (New York: Sotheby's, December 13, 2006), lot 110, illus. (color).
Meir Ronnen, "Auctions: Sotheby's leads Judaica sales," The Jerusalem Post (December 28, 2006), mentioned.
John W. Coffey, "Torah Finials Survive Plunder of Nazi Occupation," in Preview: The Magazine of the North Carolina Museum of Art (Winter 2008), discussed 13, illus. (color) 12.
John W. Coffey, entry for Pair of Torah Finials, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 138, illus. (color) 16, 139.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement
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Unidentified workshop, associated with Hoaching
Case: circa 1860 or earlier; finials and pointer: probably later
