Sabbath Lamp
Artist
Jacob Andreas Ebersbach
Dutch, Amsterdam, born Augsburg, 1745–1827
Date1793
MediumSilver
DimensionsH. 38 1/2 in. (97.8 cm)
ClassificationsMetal
Credit LinePurchased with funds from Lauri Union, Stanley Rosenzweig, and family in loving memory of Benjamin M. and E. Elizabeth Saslaw; Elizabeth Kanof Levine and Ronald Levine; Marion Meyer-Robboy and Stanley Robboy; Emily Kass and Charles Weinraub; and other Friends of the Judaic Art Gallery
Object number2009.5
On View
On viewProvenanceCreated Amsterdam, 1793; Wolf (Ze’ev) and Marta (née Munk) Birenboim, Amsterdam, ca. 1890 [1]; to son Henry and wife Lydia (née Hausdorf) Birenboim, Muiderberg, The Netherlands [2]; to son Willy and wife Margalit Birenboim, Jerusalem, 1990s; [Tomer Rosenfeld, Israel, 2008]; [William Gross, Tel Aviv, Israel]; sold to NCMA, 2009.
[1] Per grandson Willy Birenboim.
[2] According to Willy Birenboim, the lamp was buried in 1939 prior to World War II in a wooden box in the Jewish cemetery, Muiderberg, and retrieved after the war by Lydia Birenboim.
[1] Per grandson Willy Birenboim.
[2] According to Willy Birenboim, the lamp was buried in 1939 prior to World War II in a wooden box in the Jewish cemetery, Muiderberg, and retrieved after the war by Lydia Birenboim.
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