Embroidery - 'Mizrach'. Germany [?], 19th century

Embroidery - 'Mizrach'. Germany [?], 19th century

Gobelin embroidery - Torah crown. Germany or Poland, 19th century.

A pair of A pair of tongue-lashing lions holding the Tablets of the Law, under them a Star of David, crowned with a Torah crown.

The work of the Gobelin, which in the Middle Ages was well known and made by both men and women artists, became a work of women of various classes - bourgeoisie decorating their home and workers working for their livelihood - who provided the patience needed to perform this delicate work of art. Women from the middle and upper classes learned to weave and embroider, and in fact underwent a daily "feminine" exercise that embodies a meticulous, diligent, quiet and small work (the work of the wrist). Moved well to the 18th and 19th centuries in Western Europe.(The embroidery is also mentioned in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "Emile" (1762) as an expression of the ideal of the good bourgeois mother).

On the other hand, the sewing work of the low-class women, who are represented by the realist artists in France and England, is not a women's occupation of leisure, but rather for the purpose of making a living. Either way, the preoccupation with Gobelen's works also characterized Jewish society in the 19th century, and several important works of distinctly Jewish themes were made. A pair of lions holding a Torah scroll or the Tablets of the Covenant are typical of Poland (facing outward) and Germany (facing each other).

Unidentified artist. for Similar  Gobelin see catalog of the Jewish Museum in London, Richard Burnett 1974, item No. 9. See also The Stieglitz Collection, Masterpieces of Jewish Art by Chaya Benjamin, published by the Israel Museum 1987. Catalog item No. 227. And item No. 10. and See A GUIDE TO A JEWISH ART by Michael Kaniel, New York 1989, p.39.

42x31 cm, framed in an old wooden frame, fine condition.