SASSOON: A Golden Legacy

A LARGE ENGLISH SILVER-GILT TORAH POINTER, JOSEPH ANGELL, LONDON, 1860

Auction Closed

December 17, 05:06 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 9,000 USD

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Description

A LARGE ENGLISH SILVER-GILT TORAH POINTER, JOSEPH ANGELL, LONDON, 1860

the upper part with spiralled ribbons over engraved running leaves, the lower part engraved with overlapping leaves, cuffed hand terminal with two diamond rings, the tip of the finger also set with a diamond, crown finial with chain

marked below crown

length 12 3/4 in.

32.4 cm

Reuben David Sassoon (1834-1905), to his great-niece and sister-in-law
Flora Gubbay, Mrs. Solomon David Sassoon (1856-1936), no. 38; to her son
David Solomon Sassoon (1880-1942), to his son
Rabbi Solomon David Sassoon of Letchworth (1915-1985), and by descent

London, 1887: Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition, Royal Albert Hall, "The Sassoon Collection of Hebrew Ecclesiastical Art, exhibited by Reuben D. Sassoon Esq." under no. 2036 "Scroll of the Law...silver-gilt pointer, with two diamond rings on the hand and chain", illustrated opposite p. 115.

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