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An Austrian Silver Eagle-Form Hanukkah Lamp, maker's mark AIK or AK, Vienna, 1857

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December 15, 09:26 PM GMT

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8,000 - 12,000 USD

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An Austrian Silver Eagle-Form Hanukkah Lamp, maker's mark AIK or AK, Vienna, 1857


the backplate in the form of a spread eagle above a scrollwork panel chased with diaper, baluster ewer-form lamps and servant light, marked on rack of lamps and on one rack support


Length 13 in. (33 cm)

Jay Weinstein, A Collector’s Guide to Judaica, London: Thames & Hudson, 1985, p. 130, fig. 156.

Susan Braunstein, Five Centuries of Hanukkah Lamps from the Jewish Museum, 2004, p. 95, pl. 36

A lamp with similar backplate by this maker, 1858, is illustrated in Braunstein, op. cit., where the Halpern lamp is also cited.