- Object Name:
- Torah Shield
- Artist/Maker:
- Johann Jakob Runnecke
- Bio:
- 1731-1806; master before 1763
- Place Made:
- Fürth (Germany)
- Date:
- 1797/98 (date of inscription)
- Medium:
- Silver: repoussé, cast, and engraved
- Dimensions:
- Overall: 11 11/16 × 8 7/16 in. (29.7 × 21.4 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Jewish Cultural Reconstruction
- Accession Number:
- JM 25-52
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The Fürth master Johann Jakob Runnecke was a prolific silversmith, the majority of whose works were Jewish ceremonial art. Although Rosenberg had originally suggested that the maker's mark "IR" belonged to an unknown smith named J. Rimmonim, the mark has since been identified as that of Johann Jakob Runnecke, the son of a Berlin silversmith, Johann Runnecken (Timann). Runnecke produced some forty works of Judaica; stylistically, they span the Rococo and the early Neoclassical periods of around 1750-1800.
Information may change as a result of ongoing research.