Standing Hanukkah Lamp for a Synagogue

Artist Unknown

Date1770/1771 (dedication, per inscription)

MediumCopper alloy, partly gilded (eagle)

DimensionsH. 60 in. (152.4 cm)

ClassificationsMetal

Credit LineGift of Thomas G. and Louise J. Coffey in memory of H. Arthur Sandman

Object number2013.4

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ProvenanceCreated Eastern Europe, probably Galicia [present day Poland or Ukraine], 1771/1771. Dr. Abraham (Adolf) Segal (1868–1936), Lemberg, Galicia (present day Lviv, Ukraine), and Vienna, Austria, by 1926; to daughter and son-in-law, Kamilla Segal Spear (1902–1984) and Nathaniel Spear, Jr. (1896–1988), Pittsburgh and New York, as a wedding gift November 27, 1927; to grandson Jeremy N. Spear, New York, August 5, 1987; [Kestenbaum & Co., New York, 1997]; Michael and Judy Steinhardt, New York, 1997; [Steinhardt Sale, Sotheby’s, New York, April 29, 2013, no. 221, illus. (color)]; sold to NCMA, 2013.

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