Synagogue Ark

Artist not known

Jewish Museum

1584

Synagogue ark elaborately carved, coloured and gilded in the Baroque style with Jewish emblems and a Hebrew text in Spanish lettering. Made for the Venetian Ponentine congregation - the Spanish Portuguese refugees from the Inquisition.

• Medium: walnut
• Dimensions: 306 x 228 x 107 cm
• ArtFunded in: 1937
• Presented by Children of Viscount Bearsted through The Art Fund

Provenance

Earls of Tankerville; the Chillingham Castle sale, 1932; Messrs Joseph, Mr Fersht, Harris and Sons from whom Mrs Ionides bought it for donation.

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