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Torah Ark Curtain
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This Torah ark curtain from Venice was made by Simḥah, the wife of Menachem Levi Meshuallami, a member of a prominent family in the Venice ghetto. It is embroidered in silk and silk-metallic thread…

Contributor:

Wife of Menahem Levi Meshullami Simḥah

Places:

Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

1680/1

Subjects:

Textiles, Ritual object, Jerusalem, Ketubot, Aesthetics

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Ritual Objects, Decorative Arts
Cloth with embroidered image of tablets in clouds above mountain and city.