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Spice Container

Artist Unknown

Date1732

MediumSilver

DimensionsH. 12 7/8 in. (32.7 cm)

ClassificationsMetal

Credit LineGift of Deborah and Michael Rubin, Marion Meyer-Robboy and Stanley Robboy, Albert J. Jacobson, and other Friends of the Judaic Art Gallery

Object number2012.3

On View

On view

ProvenanceCreated Central Europe, probably Silesia [present day Czechia or Poland], 1732. [D. Spiegel?]; Michael M. Zagayski (1895–1967), New York, by 1951 [1]; [Zagayski Sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet Galleries, New York, March 18, 1964, no. 74, illus. (b-w)]; private collection, New York; [Sotheby’s, New York, December 14, 2011, no. 30, illus. (color)]; sold to NCMA, 2011.Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, The Jewish Museum, "Loan Exhibit of Antique Ceremonial Objects and Paintings from the Collection of Mr. M. Zagayski," May-July 1951, no. 70.

New York, NY, The Jewish Museum, "The Silver and Judaica Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Michael M. Zagayski," 1963, no. 57, illus. (b-w).

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