Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Antiquities, Ceremonial Objects & Graphic Art
Mar 9, 2018 (Your local time)
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LOT 331:

WOMAN’S SABBATH HAT
Gold thread embroidery and silver lace, set on ...

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Gold thread embroidery and silver lace, set on canvas and wire. Approx. 7 x 11 inches (17.8 x 27.9 cm).


Polish, 19th-century.

A fine and rare example of a “kupka” bonnet worn by well-to-do religious Jewish women on Sabbath and Festivals. Composed of extraordinary detailed Spanier-arbeit.
     The Jewish decorative work, known in Yiddish as Spanier-arbeit, or ‘Spanish work,’ was a particular specialty craft executed by Jews, especially in the Galicia region of Poland (see Yivo Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe).
     For another example see Sotheby’s, The Michael & Judy Steinhardt Judaica Collection, April 29th, 2013, Lot 224.

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