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Ewer and Basin
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This ewer and basin from Turkey were used to wash hands ritually during the Passover seder. Owned by the Benguiat family, a large and prominent Sephardic family in the Ottoman Empire, the objects…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Türkiye)

Date:

ca. 1845

Subjects:

Crafts, Passover, Life cycle, Ritual objects, Sephardic

Categories:

Decorative arts, Ritual Objects
Gold ewer and basin.
Haggadah
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This page from a Haggadah produced in Amsterdam is an example of the work of Joseph Ben David Leipnik, a prominent eighteenth-century scribe and artist known particularly for his illustrated Haggadahs…

Contributor:

Joseph Leipnik

Places:

Holy Roman Empire (Altona, Germany)

Date:

1737

Subjects:

Haggadah, Holidays, Passover, Illuminated manuscripts, Ritual objects

Categories:

Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art, Ritual Objects
Manuscript page with Hebrew writing on top and illustration below of three central figures in hats and holding swords, next to a horse, camel, dogs, and two tents, with people in the left background and mountains beyond.