Hanukkah lamp

On view

African Art

Hanukkah lamp,

1897

2023-6

Information

Title
Hanukkah lamp
Dates

1897

Medium
Brass
Dimensions
26.7 × 25.8 × 6.3 cm (10 1/2 × 10 3/16 × 2 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund
Object Number
2023-6
Place Made

Africa, Morocco, Rabat

Culture
African, Moroccan
Type
hanukkah lamps, menorah, metalwork, religious objects
Subject
Judaica

[David Cohen, Jerusalem, Israel]; purchased by William Gross, Tel Aviv, Israel, ca. 2010; purchased by the Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ, 2023.

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