Miniature Silver Spice Container.
Iraq or Kurdistan, the 19th century.
Silver, repousseed and engraved.
Height: 5.6 cm. Maximum diameter: 4.5 cm.
Miniature Silver Spice Container
ADDITIONAL INFO
A unique miniature round spice container with a raised lid and a small carrying handle. The container is delicately repousseed and engraved with geometric and vegetal patterns - flowers and foliage. The container stands on three leaf-decorated concave legs. The upper part opens to insert the spices.
The end of the Sabbath is marked by the Havdalah (separation) ceremony, with its blessings over wine, candle and fragrant spices. The spice container is a distinctively Jewish object for the storage of spices used during the Havdalah ceremony. For the blessing over spices, various forms of plants are used, among them the myrtle branch, whose name in Hebrew - Hadas - is one of the names for the spice container.
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