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Small Hanukkah Lamp – Tunisia – Decorated with Birds - Hanukkah lamp. Tunisia (or Algeria), [19th century]. Brass, cast and punched; rivets. Small Hanukkah lamp. Openwork. Back plate features vase with flowers at center, above row of five horseshoe-arch gates. Surmounted by clover-like ornament, flanked by a pair of large birds. Each side panel with ”window” in form of horseshoe-arch gate, and surmounted by hand-shaped ornament (”Hamsa”). Surface decorated with circlets. Row of elongated rectangular oil fonts with pinched, pointed spouts for wicks. Stylized servant light attached to back plate, just below apex. Height: 13 cm. Width: 11.5 cm. Good condition. References: North African Lights, item no. 122 (from the Stieglitz Collection); The Stieglitz Collection: Masterpieces of Jewish Art, item no. 177; The Hanukkah Lamp, pl. LV, item no. 154. Purchased in Tunis, Tunisia, November 2005.