Auction 35
Lot 070:
Eight miniature, identical pewter chairs with a stylish backrest, each of which constitutes a holder for a candle or for oil. Additional matching chair but with a slight difference in the backrest as the shamash, which goes in the middle. Stamp of a flower on the bottom of each chair. Total weight: 268.
Height: 5.5cm. Each chair is 1x1cm. Wear and signs of use, overall good condition.
The book “Luminous Art” by Susan Brownstein discusses the collection of channukiyot at the Jewish Museum in New York, which features a channukiyah made entirely of chairs. According to what is written there, there was a common tradition of making Hanukkah objects from castings of tin and lead alloy in Germany, Bohemia and Eastern Europe. Sometimes the children themselves created lead dreidels with this technology. This technique also created this menorah.
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