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Lamp case and lid

 

Place of origin:

Germany (possibly, made)

Germany (possibly, made)

 

Date:

1412-23 (made)

 

Artist/Maker:

Unknown

 

Materials and Techniques:

Leather, moulded, embossed and punched

 

Credit Line:

Bequeathed by George Salting

 

Museum number:

W.111&A-1910

 

Gallery location:

Medieval and Renaissance, Room 50c, case 1 []

 

This leather case may have been made to protect a gold kiddush cup given (according to the Hebrew inscription on the lid) by Isaac son of Jacob to a congregation named for his father Jacob Halevi.

 

The kiddush cup (kiddush goblet, kiddush beaker) is a goblet used for drinking wine in Jewish religious ceremonies on special occasions such as wedding or in the benediction before the evening meal preceding each Sabbath or a holy festival. Ordinarily there is no special form for these cups and any type of wine cup may be used.

 

SOURCE: collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O112849/lamp-case-and-unknown/

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