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Stylized painting showing a photographer operating a large wooden bellows camera, set against a backdrop of draped reddish-brown fabric and abstract gray forms.
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART JOURNAL | VOLUME 60

"A Pair of Galician Torah Finials"

Arnold, Riva
2025
12 pages
14 illustrations
9.25 x 11.25 in
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The Metropolitan Museum Journal is issued annually and publishes original research on works of art in the Museum’s collection. Highlights of volume 60 include texts on a ceramic figure of a Tolita-Tumaco community elder crafted in ancient Ecuador, an exemplary Hanukkah lamp made by an eighteenth-century Roman silversmith, and modernist painter Yasuo Kuniyoshi’s Self-Portrait as a Photographer from 1924.

Pair of Torah finials (Rimmonim), Silver, partially gilded, rubies, emeralds, freshwater pearls, enamel, colored glass, Austrian, Galicia (present day Poland/Ukraine)
Austrian, Galicia (present day Poland/Ukraine)
1775–90

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Arnold, Riva. “A Pair of Galician Torah Finials.” Metropolitan Museum Journal 60 (December 2025): 136–47. https://doi.org/10.1086/739640.