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Persian Carpet
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This Persian carpet, manufactured between 1600 and 1630, was later used for a reader’s desk and desk cover in the Portuguese Synagogue in The Hague, Netherlands.

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

The Hague, Dutch Republic (The Hague, Netherlands)

Date:

1600–1726

Subjects:

Textiles, Crafts, Synagogue, Sephardic, Ritual object

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Dress & Adornment, Household Objects
Carpet with embroidered designs and four small posts near each corner.
Jewish Wedding
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In this engraving from a Dutch translation of Leone Modena’s Historia de’ riti Ebraici (History of the Jewish Rites), a Jewish wedding in Amsterdam is pictured. Groom and bride stand under the huppah…

Contributor:

Jan Luyken

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1683

Subjects:

Marriage, Synagogue, Ritual & observance, Dress, Ethnography

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Dress & Adornment
Print engraving of indoor scene with people standing around couple under large canopy with musicians in background.