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CultureItalian
Titles
  • Tallit
Datelate 18th–early 19th century
MediumSilk and needle lace
DimensionsOverall (with fringe): 85 × 47 5/8 in. (215.9 × 121 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Joan Alexander in honor of Bradley Houston
Object number2023.618
Not on view

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Provenance[Sotheby’s, The Halpern Judaica Collection: Tradition and Treasure, Part III, 14 December 2023, lot 145]; MFAH, 2023.


Published References Dora Liscia Bemporad and Olga Melasecchi (eds.), Tutti i colori dell’Italia ebraica: tessuti preziosi dal Tempio di Gerusalemme al prêt-à-porter (Florence: Giunti, 2019), 165 (no. 43)
Catalogue raisonnéN/A

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