- Object Name:
- Hanukkah Lamp
- Place Made:
- Eastern Galicia or western Ukraine (?)
- Date:
- mid 19th-early 20th century
- Medium:
- Copper alloy: cast
- Dimensions:
- 9 3/8 × 12 1/8 × 6 1/8 in. (23.7 × 30.9 × 15.6 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Dr. Harry G. Friedman
- Accession Number:
- F 133
Not On View
A parallel example in the Victoria and Albert Museum is said to have come from a synagogue in Bokaima, Galicia, before 1911, when it was acquired by the museum. Late copies of this lamp type were made in the early twentieth century by Eugene Wiedamann of Regensburg.
Information may change as a result of ongoing research.