Luxurious album-format book Judaica. Sacred Beauty. Antique Jewish Silver from Private Collections, written by Mikhail Itkin, the author of several books on the examination of antiques and the collection of Jewish ritual objects. The book-album contains descriptions and photographs of more than two hundred rare objects of Jewish decorative and applied art made in Eastern Europe and the Russian Empire in the 18th and early 20th centuries, originating from private collections. This information gives an excellent idea of the purpose and characteristics of Judaica objects, the variety of their forms and decorations, craftsmen, time and place of manufacture. The book can be used not only as a source of interesting and useful information, but as an excellent gift.
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