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This ivory relief bears a common motif, found in ivories from Syria and nearby areas as well: a woman stares straight out from a window set in a triply recessed frame with a balustrade in front. Her…
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Samaria, Land of Israel
(Samaria, Israel)
Date:
Iron Age IIA–IIB, 9th–8th Century BCE
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This bronze medal by Jacques Elion commemorates the opening of a Jewish orphanage in Amsterdam. The Hebrew inscription reads: “Orphanage.” It was customary for Jewish communities to issue medals to…
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Jacques Elion
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date:
1865
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Friedrich Wilhelm von Erdmannsdorff
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Wörlitz, Holy Roman Empire
(Wörlitz, Germany)
Date:
1789–1790
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Artist Unknown
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Yanuv, Russian Empire
(Janów, Poland)
Date:
1700s
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Abraham Hirsch
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Lyon, Second French Empire
(Lyon, France)
Date:
1863–1864
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Abraham Solomon
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1855
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Tina Blau
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Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire
(Vienna, Austria)
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1875–1876
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Artist Unknown
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
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ca. 1600
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Palm imagery is a common motif in decorative architectural elements like window balustrades. Each of the four columns in this partial restoration from the biblical period is six inches in diameter and…
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Ramat Rahel, Land of Israel
(Ramat Rahel, Israel)
Date:
Iron Age II, Late 8th–Early 7th Century BCE
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This medal for St. Stephanskirche in Vienna provides an example of the style innovated by its engraver Jacques Wiener (1815–1899), in which the exterior of a building appears on one side and the…
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Jacques Wiener
Places:
Brussels, Kingdom of Belgium
(Brussels, Belgium)
Date:
1862