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Hanukkah Menorah
Restitution status: Dubiousness is still to be clarified
Categories: Furniture / Lamps and other light fittings
Object Data
Artist
Museum
Inventory Number
ÖMV/45983
Description
Bench-shaped Hanukkah menorah with a holder for the assist light (Schamasch) front center. Cut out/shaped from a brass sheet. Eight small candleholders (three-tier, inverted cone) are screwed and soldered to the bench with rolled supports at each end; a ninth holder with a cylindrical chrome casing is attached in front of the row of lights. The rear panel is trapeze-shaped with a Star of David.
Height
9.6 cm
Width
24.5 cm
Period
20th Century
Provenance Data
Purchase from a private collection
Provenance according to museum / collection
Acquired at the Wiener Tandelmarkt from Kriminalkommissär Fröschl
Board of the Society for Folk Life and Folk Art
No decision has been reached so far.
The art or cultural object is kept in the museum/in the collection.
Request Object
© Art restitution National Fund of the Republic Austria for Victims of National Socialism