SASSOON: A Golden Legacy

A VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT MINIATURE TORAH CROWN, ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEPH ANGELL, LONDON, CIRCA 1860

Auction Closed

December 17, 05:06 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT MINIATURE TORAH CROWN, ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEPH ANGELL, LONDON, CIRCA 1860

formed as the British Imperial crown, with alternating strawberry leaves and fleurs-de-lys, beaded ribs, spiral finial, baseband chased with gems above simulated ermine band, the underside with two sockets for rods and hung with four bells, all chased with scrolling foliage

apparently unmarked

height 4 in.

10.2 cm

Reuben David Sassoon (1834-1905), to his great-niece and sister-in-law
Flora Gubbay, Mrs. Solomon David Sassoon (1856-1936), 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.", part of no. 2052, "Small Crown for Scrolls of the Law - Two; silver gilt; closed"

London, 1906: Exhibition of Jewish Art and Antiquities, Whitechapel Art Gallery, November 7 to December 16, no. 163, lent by Mrs. S.D. Sassoon.

This piece has been attributed to Joseph Angell on the basis of its similarities with the previous lot; they share identical sockets and bells chased with scrolling foliage, and have been together since at least the Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition of 1887.