Reduced Price Vintage Brass Menorah By Tamar: 'am Yisrael Chai' For Sale

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About Tamar and other Earlier Metal Workshops in Israel (from 20 Metal workshops operated in Israel in the years 1950's -1970's, and created a variety of home decor arts and crafts, souvenir and gift items. The Israeli Metal Arts and Crafts Industry offered an affordable, decorative art for the new immigrants of Israel, and appealed also to Jewish people living outside of Israel (mainly in the US), and to tourists and pilgrims who later came to visit the Holy Land.Most of the these workshops closed during the 1970's, and these beautiful works of art are becoming rare and collectible worldwideAntique Jewish European designs, and Oriental, Eastern and North African influences can be seen in many of the works.The motifs were mainly taken from the Holy Bible but also from daily life of the young country of Israel, such as dancing people, girls with a water jug and more.Biblical & Religious motifs - Jerusalem, the Temple Menorah, Star of David, the 12 tribes of Israel, Moses, the Ten Commandments, and other biblical images / stories.Materials
The materials used were simple and not expensive - mostly casts of Metal alloys such as brass and copper, with varieties in finish and additional ornaments such as color enamel, semi precious gemstones, and hand paintings by Israeli these workshops were: Pal Bell, Dayagi, Hakuli, Oppenheim, Tamar, Wainberg, Zel Zion, Abada, Noga and more. They succeeded the work of Bezalel Art Academy, founded in Jerusalem at 1906 (although Bezalel's designs were more influenced by Oriental Yemenite, Silver Filigree Art)"

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