A highly important German silver Sabbath and Festival Hanging Lamp (Judenstern) of three tier tower form, partly pierced with scrolls and geometric motifs: the top tier with partly tiled windowed dome with openwork coronet pierced with strapwork and double-headed eagles displayed below trefoils, the dome surrounded by a gallery occupied by eight figures with emblems as follows: Rosh Hashana - shofar and book, Purim - scroll and rattle, Passover - matzah and matzah scorer, Hanukah - menorah and ewer, Yom Kippur - knife and slain chicken, Shavuot - Tablets of the Law, Sukkot - lulav and etrog, Sabbath - havdalah candleholder and spice box; applied below with windows screened by strapwork and mask panels alternating with spiraled pilasters topped by deer alternating with stylized mermaids; the middle tier applied with alternate round and square windows, the first with wheel-like screens, the second with grids, spaced by spiraled pilasters matching those in the top section, all below a cast openwork rim of fleurs-de-lys and scrolls; the lower tier applied with lion masks alternating with cannon-form fountain heads, spaced by mermaid-headed pilasters, all framed by two horizontal openwork borders of fleurs-de-lys and scrolls; the tower mounted by central rod and three slip-locks on an oil reservoir with star-shaped projection of ten paneled spouts, each engraved underneath with two bands of diminishing scrolling foliage; the center of the base with large lion mask, from which is suspended the half-baluster drip-bowl chased with three hounds pursuing a stag, doe and rabbit within ragged foliage on matted ground, melon-form terminal; the tower with five detachable candle branches formed of cast openwork scrollwork fronted by a grotesque head, each suspending a bell and supporting a plain drip-pan and sconce, marked on all sections and four-drip-pans with maker’s mark of Johann Adam Boller and Frankfurt city mark, circa 1710; the lamp suspended from a silver two-piece saw-edged ratchet with four cast eagle-head terminals, the top applied with two cast double headed eagles displayed, marked on each piece with maker’s mark of Jacob Loschhorn and city mark of Frankfurt, circa 1770. Together with ten silver drip-channels, chased except for one with flames, nine with maker’s mark I L F in trefoil, also stamped 12, East German or Polish, late 18th century. height of lamp with drip bowl 24 1/2 in.; diameter of reservoir 14 1/2 in.; height of ratchet closed 21 1/4 in.; height of ratchet open 37 3/4 in. 62.2 cm; 36.8 cm; 54 cm; 96 cm with ratchet hanger, Johann Jacob Leschhorn (Löschhorn), both Frankfurt am Main, circa 1710 and circa 1770 Johann Adam Boller
A highly important German silver Sabbath and Festival Hanging Lamp (Judenstern) of three tier tower form, partly pierced with scrolls and geometric motifs: the top tier with partly tiled windowed dome with openwork coronet pierced with strapwork and double-headed eagles displayed below trefoils, the dome surrounded by a gallery occupied by eight figures with emblems as follows: Rosh Hashana - shofar and book, Purim - scroll and rattle, Passover - matzah and matzah scorer, Hanukah - menorah and ewer, Yom Kippur - knife and slain chicken, Shavuot - Tablets of the Law, Sukkot - lulav and etrog, Sabbath - havdalah candleholder and spice box; applied below with windows screened by strapwork and mask panels alternating with spiraled pilasters topped by deer alternating with stylized mermaids; the middle tier applied with alternate round and square windows, the first with wheel-like screens, the second with grids, spaced by spiraled pilasters matching those in the top section, all below a cast openwork rim of fleurs-de-lys and scrolls; the lower tier applied with lion masks alternating with cannon-form fountain heads, spaced by mermaid-headed pilasters, all framed by two horizontal openwork borders of fleurs-de-lys and scrolls; the tower mounted by central rod and three slip-locks on an oil reservoir with star-shaped projection of ten paneled spouts, each engraved underneath with two bands of diminishing scrolling foliage; the center of the base with large lion mask, from which is suspended the half-baluster drip-bowl chased with three hounds pursuing a stag, doe and rabbit within ragged foliage on matted ground, melon-form terminal; the tower with five detachable candle branches formed of cast openwork scrollwork fronted by a grotesque head, each suspending a bell and supporting a plain drip-pan and sconce, marked on all sections and four-drip-pans with maker’s mark of Johann Adam Boller and Frankfurt city mark, circa 1710; the lamp suspended from a silver two-piece saw-edged ratchet with four cast eagle-head terminals, the top applied with two cast double headed eagles displayed, marked on each piece with maker’s mark of Jacob Loschhorn and city mark of Frankfurt, circa 1770. Together with ten silver drip-channels, chased except for one with flames, nine with maker’s mark I L F in trefoil, also stamped 12, East German or Polish, late 18th century. height of lamp with drip bowl 24 1/2 in.; diameter of reservoir 14 1/2 in.; height of ratchet closed 21 1/4 in.; height of ratchet open 37 3/4 in. 62.2 cm; 36.8 cm; 54 cm; 96 cm with ratchet hanger, Johann Jacob Leschhorn (Löschhorn), both Frankfurt am Main, circa 1710 and circa 1770 Johann Adam Boller
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