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This alms container from Charleston, South Carolina, is made of cast and engraved silver. The cartouche on the front features two rampant lions flanking a menorah. The Hebrew inscriptions read:…
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Artist Unknown
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Charleston, United States of America
Date:
ca. 1819
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Benjamin S. Judah (1761–1831) was an influential businessman in New York City and Philadelphia who built his wealth on shipping contracts to and from the West Indies. Judah was bankrupted when Great…
Contributor:
Ralph Earl
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1794
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Jacob Epstein, “Morris Rosenfeld,” from Hutchins Hapgood’s The Spirit of the Ghetto: Studies of the Jewish Quarter in New York. Epstein was best-known for his sculptures, but he also created the…
Contributor:
Jacob Epstein
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1904
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Like many of Gertrud Natzler's ceramics, this bowl is flowing and graceful, and, as Otto, her husband and artistic partner, said about her pots in general, “practically floats.” The Natzlers’ works…
Contributor:
Gertrud Natzler, Otto Natzler
Places:
Los Angeles, United States of America
Date:
1960