IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 208706 accession number: AAL.8A & B-2014 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Monday 9 May 2016 updated: Wednesday 18 December 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A very rare pair of Torah finials, chased and engraved, hung with bells and surmounted by a crown. Kelzings, as his name implies, was one of the large German population in Bauska (in German, Bauske) in the eighteenth century, which would account for the German appearance and form of these rimmonim. In addition to Germans, Bauska also had a large Jewish population which by the nineteenth century had grown to be 50% of the population. title: finial NOTES ----- type: history note value: Collection of Sir Moses Montefiore Bart. (1784-1885) for use in his private synagogue in Ramsgate, Kent. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: External department: Applied Arts creditline: Lent by The Montefiore Collections, London STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/208706 CATEGORIES ------ category: silver category: religious/ritual equipment DATING ------ creation date: 1720 - 1730 creation date earliest: 1720 creation date latest: 1730 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Kelzings, Kristofers DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 30