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Ceramic tile - Bezalel - Jerusalem - ”If I forget you Jerusalem will forget my right hand” - A ceramic tile made in Bezalel, approximately the 1920s-30s, decorated with hand painting with a panoramic view of the old city of Jerusalem in shades of brown, and the inscription ”If I forget you, Jerusalem will forget my right”, signed in the lower right corner 'Bezalel Ceramics' and in the opposite corner 'Jerusalem', framed in an original wooden frame from the period with a foot, tile dimensions: 15x15 cm, Frame dimensions: 23x21 cm. Light wear. * See: Tiles adorning a city, ”Bezalel” ceramics in Tel-Aviv houses, 1923-1929, by Batia Karmiel (Eretz Israel Museum, Tel-Aviv, 1996), p. 37. (A photo from the book page is attached at the end of the photos).