Name/Title
Decorated Torah finialsEntry/Object ID
K_0677Tags
storageDescription
Slender, elegant pair of Yemenite-style Torah finials. Faceted baluster form, upper body with two faceted pear-like knops; lower body with a decorated band and a gadrooned spheroid knop. Surfaces of both upper faceted knops with vegetal patterns and with two biblical verses, engraved in elegant Hebrew letters: "The Torah of the Lord is perfect / restoring the soul / the testimony of the Lord is sure" on one finial, and continuing: "making wise the simple. / The statutes of the Lord are right / gladdening the heart" (Paslms 19:8-9) on the other. Rings with bells. Lower sections of shafts decorated with minute arches.Made/Created
Place
Country
YemenContinent
AsiaRegion
Middle EastNotes
Date made: 19th or early 20th centuryMaterial
Cut brass (parcel silvered), repousse and engraved