Hanukkah Lamp

This work bears the mark for the city of Venice, a winged lion head, but was made in Germany, as evidenced by the "800" assay mark. The latter, stamped without a surrounding field, was used on all German silver after 1888. The lion head mark was in fact appropriated by the Neresheimer firm, which was one of a number of German silver manufacturers, many of them in Hanau, making Judaica in archaizing styles. Similar examples have been attributed to Germany, Russia, and Portugal in the late nineteenth to early twentieth century.