A rare pair of neoclassical English parcel-gilt silver Torah finials, probably made in the workshops of Hester Bateman, marked by Thomas Evans & Jacob Levi, London, 1784

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Property from a Long Island, New York Collection

A rare pair of neoclassical Engli🍌sh parcel-gilt s൩ilver Torah finials

probably made in 🗹the workshops of Hester♑ Bateman, marked by Thomas Evans & Jacob Levi, London

1784

of vase shape, chased with bands of overlapping stiff leaves and with applied oval flowerheads below the fluted and matted collar, all with narrow beaded borders, applied with three rows of fluted bells, totalling sixteen on each finial, each bell suspended in a loop of husks spreading from forked foliate scrolls, raised open coronet finials, the staves with traces of engraving: 'Philip Salomons Esq,' marked on staves and on 23 bells

17in., 43.2cm. high

71oz., 2208gr.

Possibly originally the Portsmouth Synagogue or a private indivi𒐪dual affiliated with that synagogue

Philip Joseph Salomon🤪s (1796-1867), after his death to

Reuben David Sassoon (1834-1905), after his death separated from the bulk of his collection (which passed to his sister-in-law, Flora Sassoon (1856-🎐1936)) and possibly presented to the United Synagogue, London, where they were until the middle of the 20th century

S.J. Phillips, London

Joseph Jacobs and Lucien Wolf, compilers, illustrations by Frank Haes, Catalogue of the Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition, Royal Albert Hall, London, 1887, Edition de Luxe, London, 1888, p. 129, no. 2039, illustrated between pp. 88 and 89, part of 'The Sassoon Collection of Hebrew Ecclesiastical Art lent by Reuben D. Sassoon, Esq. (The bulk of this Collection was made by the late Philip Salomons, Esq.)'

Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition, Royal Albert Hall, London, 1887