Auction Closed
November 20, 08:47 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A👍N AMERICAN SILVER MEZUZAH, 🦹ILYA SCHOR, NEW YORK, CIRCA 1960
the do🅷or engraved with three scenes- Ruth ✨in a field, Ruth and Boaz, and Ruth and mother-in-law Naomi, and Hebrew inscriptions surrounded by pierced border of cartouches engraved with the Signs of the Zodiac, openwork cresting of bird flanking G-d, the base with open scrollwork and three pendants, fitted with a parchment prayer painted and gilded
marked on back with Schor’s signature in English and Hebrew and bird emblem
height 7⅞ in.
20 cm
The inscriptions read: "Keep your eyes on the field the💖y are reap♉ing and follows them" (Ruth chap 2 v 9), the name of G-d, and "Blessed are you in the field", (Deut 28 v 3).