A Rare Pewter Spice Tower, probably Western Poland, early 19th century
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December 15, 09:26 PM GMT
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2,000 - 3,000 USD
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A Rare Pewter Spice Tower, probably Western Poland, early 19th century
square chamber engraved with wriggle-work, star finial, sliding chamber 🔥door, corner flag finials (three detached),🍌 baluster stem and circular base, engraved in Hebrew
Sotheby's, New York, 25 November 1981, lot 262.
Jay Weinstein, A Collector's Guide to Judaica, p. 63, fig. 46
Engraved in Hebrew on the sides, “Belongs to the city of Rackwitz.” This could be the German town of Rackwitz, in Saxony outside Leipzig, but is more likely the former Rackwitz, now Rakoniewice, in Western Poland, where a Jewish community was documented in 1796; only the cemetery remains today.
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