- Object Name:
- Seder Plate
- Artist/Maker:
- Amy Klein Reichert
- Bio:
- American, b. 1959
- Manufacturer:
- Stephen Smithers
- Bio:
- American, b. 1951
- Place Made:
- Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States
- Date:
- 1997
- Medium:
- Mahogany; silver: repoussé and pierced; glass
- Dimensions:
- 12 3/8 × 12 3/8 × 3 in. (31.4 × 31.4 × 7.6 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Purchase: Sanford C. Bernstein Foundation Fund and Gift of Mrs. Bernard Kahn, by exchange
- Accession Number:
- 1997-125a-o
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"According to halakhah [Jewish law], seder plates may take any shape. By departing from the typical circle, this seder plate fulfills the Mishnah's charge to introduce change at the table. The Haggadah is an anthology of elements from the Torah, Talmud, Midrash, and folksongs. The abstract design of the seder plate juxtaposing the elements rather than placing them in the round, echoes that collage-like quality. The seder plate is not supposed to be a plate at all, but a symbolic landscape. It is a repository of memory, whose mysterious fossil-like impressions provide interpretation and elaboration."
-Amy Klein Reichert, 1997
-Amy Klein Reichert, 1997
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