Auction 016
Online Auction – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
By Kedem
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Aug 14, 2018
8 Ramban St, Jerusalem., Israel
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LOT 90:
Silver Plaque – Map of Palestine Based on the 1695 Amsterdam Haggadah – Israel, 20th Century
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Sold for: $360
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Silver Plaque – Map of Palestine Based on the 1695 Amsterdam Haggadah – Israel, 20th Century
Map of Palestine on a silver plaque. [Israel?, second half of the 20th century].
(Stamped) silver, engraved, cut, soldered and fixed with rivets.
Silver plaque engraved with a map of Palestine, showing the territories of the twelve tribes. This map is based on the map which appears in the 1695 edition of the Amsterdam Haggadah. This map was sketched by the convert Avraham bar Ya'akov after the map of Cana'an (Situs Terrae Promissionis) made by Christian van Adrichom, first published in Köln in 1590.
he following inscription appears at the top of the map: "This is for the knowledge of all intelligent people, the path of the journeys throughout 40 years in the desert and the width and length of the Holy Land from the Egyptian river until the city of Damascus and from the Arnon River until the Great Sea and each tribe therein as your eyes can rightly see and the intelligent ones can comprehend" (Hebrew). The plaque is embedded into a frame on a blue velvet background.
Silver plaque: 28X50 cm. Weight: 1.02 kilogram. Frame: 40X63 cm. Good condition. Few stains. Defects to velvet background.
