Creator Bio

Johann Conrad Weiss

1670–1758

Johann Conrad Weiss was a silversmith active in Nuremberg, Germany, in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator

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Burial Society Cup

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Page with Hebrew text of decorative border and Star of David located in bottom section, with signatures in the Roman alphabet below.
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Two-panel drawing, the top of many people in interior room, some seated on right side under canopy, and the bottom of many people outside with a central figure with veil.
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