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LOT 12:
Adam and Chava - Special Tray made of Brass, Silver and Copper. Damascus - Eretz Yisrael, 1910
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Adam and Chava - Special Tray made of Brass, Silver and Copper. Damascus - Eretz Yisrael, 1910
Original Damascene Work, artistic and most impressive, dated 1910.
Plate made of heavy brass with a lovely artistic work on it combining silver, brass and copper, featuring the scene of Adam and Chava in the Garden of Eden. In the center, the figures of Adam and Chava approaching the Tree of Knowledge bearing many fruit and the snake twisted around its trunk. They are surrounded by animals, trees and birds, all in a spiral ornate border.
On the edge of the plate, the following verse from Sefer Beresit is hammered: "ותרא האשה כי טוב העץ למאכל וכי תאוה הוא לעינים ונחמד העץ להשכיל ותקח מפריו ותאכל ותתן גם לאישה עמה ויאכל" (When the woman saw that the tree was good for eating and a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable as a source of wisdom, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave some to her husband, and he ate).
The silver words עבודת דמשק ש' התר"ע [1910] (Damascus work 1910) are also hammered onto the edge of the plate.
Damascene Work uses the technique of inlaying silver and copper into brass. The technique flourished in Syria and Egypt in the Mamluk period during the 13th-15th centuries and it is a characteristic feature of Muslim metalware. The earliest item made by using this technique is dated to 1163. This lovely technique developed in Eastern Iran. In the Mamluk period (1250-1517), it flourished mainly in Damascus and Cairo; yet the works made in Damascus, mostly by Jewish artists, were considered superior to those made in Cairo and to this day are favored by merchants and collectors.
The technique is based on inlaying relatively soft metals such as copper and silver into a harder metal such as brass (and in rare cases, bronze). The item would be engraved with deep depressions which were then inlaid with the silver and the copper to form varied patterns.
Diameter: 35 cm.
| Weight: | 1340 gr |
