- Object Name:
- Torah Finials
- Artist/Maker:
- Carl Friedrich Korok
- Bio:
- active 1835-1858
- Place Made:
- Breslau (Wroclaw, Poland)
- Date:
- 1848 or 1849
- Medium:
- Silver: chased, pierced, die-stamped, and parcel-gilt
- Dimensions:
- Each: 11 1/8 × 3 in. (28.3 × 7.6 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Gift of the Danzig Jewish Community
- Accession Number:
- D 177a-b
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The German inscription on these finials indicates they were donated by Lesser Gieldzinski to the Danzig Jewish Community. Gieldzinski was a wealthy merchant and art collector who gave his entire collection of Jewish ceremonial art to the Great Danzig Synagogue in 1904. This constituted one of the earliest known Jewish museums.
Information may change as a result of ongoing research.