- Object Name:
- Passover Plate
- Artist/Maker:
- Bernhardt van Zeets
- Bio:
- active late 17th-early 18th century
- Place Made:
- Plate: Nieder-Wesel (Germany); Decoration: Germany
- Date:
- late 17th–early 18th century; decoration: 18th–early 19th century
- Medium:
- Pewter: wrigglework and engraved
- Dimensions:
- Height: 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm); Diameter: 17 in. (43.2 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Gift of the Collection of Joseph and Fanya Gottesfeld-Heller
- Accession Number:
- 2010-50
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The engraving on this plate was executed by three different hands, probably at different times. Two sets of initials in Roman script on the rim identify the first owner. A Hebrew inscription in a good scribal hand around the rim was added later and includes Hebrew initials of another owner. The childlike Passover imagery in the center appears to have been added last.
Information may change as a result of ongoing research.