Kiddush Cup and Wine Carafe
Daniel Henriques de Castro
ca. 1860
This kiddush cup and wine carafe by the master glass engraver Daniel Henriques de Castro displays his delicate technique, known as stippling. Though it is most common for kiddush cups, used for the ritual blessing over wine, to be made out of silver, they are also sometimes made from glass, such as this rare surviving nineteenth-century example.
Credits
Collection Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 6.