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- Held by
- Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
- Level
- item
- Extent
- Spice box : cut, cast (moulded), embossed, perferorated, openworked, soldered, beveled : silver ; Ht: 17 cm x W: 3,7 cm
- Scope & content
- Tapered base and stem with a hollow cup on the top. The base has beveled tiers and detailings along the bottom circumference, ressembling flames; just above, going up towards the stem, are lines made of indented circles, topped with another beveled ring. The base and stem are hollow up to the ring on the stem. The cup has a design of 2 menorahs, with a Star of David in between each, going around the circumference; set in the background are flames. Openworked detailings are found around the menorahs and at the top edge of the flames. The cup is topped with a tapered, curved cone, with small waves along the edges. At the very top of the cone is a metal pole with a sphere at the point; a flag, which swivels, is attached to the bar. Narrative: The close of the Jewish Shabbat is marked by the brief prayer ceremony of Havdalah, which usually takes place in the home. Part of the ceremony requires sniffing a sweet-smelling spice or plant. In Jewish communities around the Mediterranean, a sprig of a sweet-smelling shrub was customarily used, in Northern Europe by the twelfth century there are literary references of the use of a specially designed spice box or container.
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- Genre / form
- object
- In the picture
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- cjhn.caRead automatically; may contain mistakes.
- Harvested
- 2026-10-19T03:21:16Z · source datestamp n/a · andornot
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