A HIGHLY IMPORTANT PARCEL-GILT SILVER AND ENAMEL TORAH SHIELD, SIGNED AND DATED IN HEBREW ELIMELEKH TZOREF OF STANISLAV, 1782
Sold on 17 December 2020 for 1,351,000 USD in Lot 26
Estimate:
600,000 - 900,000 USD at Sotheby’s: Provenance
Reuben David Sassoon (1834-1905), to his great-niece and sister-in-law
Flora Gubbay, Mrs. Solomon David Sassoon (1856-1936), no. 48; to her son
David Solomon Sassoon (1880-1942), to his son
Rabbi Solomon David Sassoon of Letchworth (1915-1985), and by descent
Exhibited
London, 1887: Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition, Royal Albert Hall, "The Sassoon Collection of Hebrew Ecclesiastical Art, exhibited by Reuben D. Sassoon Esq.", under no. 2040 "Scroll of the Law... A silver-gilt breastplate, with the Commandments, crowned. Moses and Aaron, and applique scrolls", illustrated opposite p. 91.
London, 1906: Exhibition of Jewish Art and Antiquities, Whitechapel Art Gallery, November 7 to December 16, no. 133, lent by Mrs. S.D. Sassoon.