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Paper cuts have been a tradition of Jewish folk art, with the earliest record of one dating to the fourteenth century. Given the widespread availability of paper in Europe by the mid-nineteenth…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Turkey)
Date:
1858–1859
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This ewer and basin from Turkey were used to wash hands ritually during the Passover seder. Owned by the Benguiat family, a large and prominent Sephardic family in the Ottoman Empire, the objects…
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Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
ca. 1845