Bidspirit auction | Silver Tray for Rosh Hashana

Silver Tray for Rosh Hashana - Work of the Artist Yehuda Ludwig Wolpert. New York ca. 1960 - ”שתחדש עלינו שנה טובה ומתוקה” (May You bring upon us a good and sweet year) Special silver tray; in its center, a honey-holder for Yamim Nora'im, made of pure silver and signed by Wolpert.  On the edges of the tray, an embossment with which Wolpert formed the famed blessing for Rosh Hashana and the Tishrei Festivals, using his special typography.  In the center of the tray, a base for the silver honey-holder with a matching lid with the Hebrew word Dvash (honey) on it.  An impressive modern-classic Judaica item.  Wolpert was born in Germany in 1990. In 1935 began teaching at the New Bezalel in Jerusalem, where he headed the Department of Metal together with the important jeweler David Heinz Gumbel. In his teaching, Wolpert emphasized Hebrew typography and modernly designed ritual objects. Yehuda Ludwig Wolpert alongside his friend David Gumbel transformed the traditional design of Judaica items. With their students at Bezalel, they made Judaica items, jewelry and silverware inspired by the Bauhaus school of design - clean of elaborate decorations, original, functional and innovative, with modernist, flowing curves. Diameter: 23 cm.  Hallmarked silver.  Provenance: The Bloch Family Collection, Melbourne-Australia.