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Obj. ID: 546
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  Torah finials (Vienna, 1845)

© Center for Jewish Art, Photographer: Radovan, Zev, 1992
The silver finial consists of a shaft, a body, a head and an apex.##The tapering cylindrical shaft is encircled at the bottom and the top by a ring decorated with conches. A pattern of a lancet-shaped leaves surrounds it"s bottom. A concave unit is mounted over the shaft and supports a spheroid capital. The capital is decorated with an openwork circular band composed of flowers. Six bell rings are attached around the band.##The upside down conical-shaped body is composed of a body base and a cap, decorated with an openwork designs. The body base has concave edges and is decorated with a whorl of lancet-shaped leaves, enclosing leaves and flowers. It is topped by a dome-shaped cap which is decorated with circumfer flowers enclosed by semicircular arches. Six bell rings are atached to the cap"s edges. ##The head is composed of a base and a cap, decorated with an openwork designs. The base, similar in shape to the body base, is decorated with rectangular openings, surmounted by a pointed dome-shaped cap decorated with a whorl of leaves.##The Finial is surmounted by a flower-shaped apex.
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Date
1845
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Ornamentation
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Blank Leaves
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Façade (main)
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Direction Toward Jerusalem
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