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Torah Ark Valance

Artist Unknown

1700

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Short curtain embroidered with Hebrew text across the top with griffins and crowns.

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Zawichost, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Zawichost, Poland)

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Decorative arts

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Detail from Torah Binder, Artist Unknown.

With permission of the Jewish Museum in Prague.

Detail from Medal of Appreciation, Wenzel Seidan.

Gift of the Samuel Freidenberg Collection, FB / 600-1860-1. Photo by Richard Goodbody, Inc. The Jewish Museum, New York. Image courtesy of the Jewish Museum, New York / Art Resource, NY.

Detail from People Pouring out of a Public Building into the Street, Friedrich Friedländer.

Österreichische Galerie Belvedere.