AN AMERICAN SILVER MEZUZAH, ILYA SCHOR, NEW YORK, CIRCA 1960

AN AMERICAN SILVER MEZUZAH, ILYA SCHOR, NEW YORK, CIRCA 1960

the door engraved with three scenes- Ruth in a field, Ruth and Boaz, and Ruth and mother-in-law Naomi, and Hebrew inscriptions surrounded by pierced border of cartouches engraved with the Signs of the Zodiac, openwork cresting of bird flanking G-d, the base with open scrollwork and three pendants, fitted with a parchment prayer painted and gilded

marked on back with Schor’s signature in English and Hebrew and bird emblem

height 7⅞ in.

20 cm