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Torah Crown
Wilhelmus Angenendt
1809
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Wilhelmus Angenendt was a Dutch silversmith active in the workshop of Swedish goldsmith Johannes Schiotling. Prior to Emancipation, it was common for Christian artisans to fulfill commissions from Jewish patrons, as Jews were barred from entering the metalworking trades.
Fanny Hensel (1805–1847), the granddaughter of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and financier Daniel Itzig, and sister of the composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, was born in Hamburg into a wealthy…
The stopper is perforated at the bottom so that liquids, probably perfumes, can be poured from the jar through the male ibex’s mouth. The horns curl tightly back to the neck, perhaps to prevent them…
Though he later turned to a more abstract style, Elbert Weinberg was still making figurative sculptures in the early 1950s, when a trend toward pure abstraction was already dominant. But Ritual Figure…