- Object Name:
- Torah Shield
- Artist/Maker:
- Johann Sitte (?)
- Bio:
- active 1789-1832
- Place Made:
- Vienna (Austria)
- Date:
- 1800-1806
- Medium:
- Silver: repoussé, cast, engraved, traced, and punched
- Dimensions:
- 7 5/8 × 6 3/4 in. (19.4 × 17.2 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Jewish Cultural Reconstruction
- Accession Number:
- JM 65-59
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The Hebrew inscription indicates this Torah shield was donated by Moses Leib Felner to the Burial Society of Polonka, located today in Belarus.
Information may change as a result of ongoing research.