Torah Mantle
1735
Maker Unknown
Decorative Arts
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Textile
- Formatted Medium
- Velvet embroidered with metal threads, silk brocade, metallic trim
- Locations
- Possible place made: Germany, Possible place made: Prague, Bohemia, Czech Republic
- Dimensions
- 19 x 38 in. (48.3 x 96.5 cm)
- Inscribed
- "A donation of the Rabbi Eliezer son of ha-Gaon Rabbi Moses Katzenellenbogen In the year [5]498 (=1738) with his wife, the modest rabbanit Rivkah daughter of Ha-Gaon Rabbi Samuel Helman."
- Departments
- Decorative Arts
- Accession Number
- 49.228.18
- Credit Line
- Purchased with funds given by S. Ralph Lazrus
- Rights Statement
- Creative Commons-BY
- Museum Location
- This item is not on view
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