SILVER DOUBLE BEAKER CIRCUMCISION CUPS
realistically chased as a barrel, with Hebrew inscriptions “Cup of Blessing”, and “Cup of the Mezizah”,
Literature: Chaya Benjamin The Stieglitz Collection, Jerusalem, 1987, item 207
Notizblatt Der Gesellschaft zur Erforschung Judischer Kunst Denkmaeler EV, reprint, Jerusalem, 1971, p.127, nos. 102-3
A similar double cup, Augsburg, 1755 sold at Sotheby’s April 1998 lot 211 for $9,500, also Sotheby’s November 1985 lot 91 sold for $13,200
together 3 1/4″ high