A GERMAN SILVER-GILT TORAH SHIELD

columned niche form chased with a menorah on scalework ground, all topped by baldachin and crown with lion supports and four tassels, hung with three bells and chain, dated in Hebrew 1800 in the cartouche, the bottom with 1930 commemorative inscription.

New York, Hebrew Union College, Jewish Institute of Religion, The Collector's Room:  Selections from the Michael and Judy Steinhardt Collection, 1993, no. 66, illus.

Two large Hebrew letters applied probably at the time of the 1930 inscription. The latter discreetly engraved on the borders, bell missing at top.
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The inscription records the gift of this shield by Max Levi and and Carl Levi of Stuttgart and their family in memory of their parents, 1930.

Four shields by this maker, active 1759-1805, are in The Jewish Museum, New York, see Rati Grafman, Crowning Glory, Silver Torah Ornaments of The Jewish Museum, New York, items 50-53.