Torah Finials

Artist Unknown

1650–1700

Pair of silver tower-shaped finials with crowns constructed like multitiered towers of arched cutouts decorated with bells.
These silver and filigree Torah finials used by Amsterdam’s Ashkenazic community are shaped like four-tiered towers. They have gilt bells in their arches and gilt urns on their corners and are topped with crowns. The form of these finials began to appear in German finials of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with slight variations.

Credits

Collection Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam, MB00004. On loan from the Ashkenazi Community Amsterdam.

Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 5.

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