Rare Chanukah Candlestick, Silver 800, Budapest Ca. 1920-1925, Diana Mark

Rare Hanukkah Menorah candlestick (Chanukah), silver 800, Budapest ca. 1920-1925, head of Diana /  Diana Head Hallmark, Early Art Deco, completely dismountable.

Chanukkia, silver 800, Austro-Hungarian, Budapest ca. 1920-25. Diana head hallmark, early Art Deco, 8+1 rotating arm pairs, 1,060g,    dismountable. Rare. ProAntik.

Large Austro-Hungarian Menorah, Hanukkah candlestick (chanoukia) with 8+1 branches in silver 800, Budapest, interwar period, with official hallmark head of Diana in a cinquefoil / quinquefoil cartouche and maker mark S.A. in rectangle.
The eight curved arms ( four independently rotating) are arranged in four pairspairs - a remarkably fine construction, entirely which can be completely dismantled, and whose formal vocabulary emergeswith Johan Rohde's nascent art deco.
Height approx.40 cm, width 38.5 cm, weight approx. 1,060 g.
Very fine condition with age-appropriate patina.      

Form & construction: Roundstepped round with flat top and elance baluster shaft. Thearms are arranged in four independently pivoting pairs, allowing variable spatial orientation. The construction iscompletely dismountable. Chalice-shaped beakers with tiered cupsthe chamash is executed separately and positioned slightly higher.

Stylistic context : The formally dominant element is the firm round disk (separator) between the pairs of arms: a pure tectonic volume with no ornamental charge. In the Jugendstil tradition, this element would have been organically dissolved or adorned with floral motifs; here, it's reduced to an abstract body. This thinking corresponds precisely to the geometric modernism that Johan Rohde developed from ca. 1915 forGeorg Jensen. The formal parallel shows that the unknown Budapest master reacted simultaneously and independently to the same Zeitgeist. The piece stands formally on the threshold between the influence of the WienerWerkstaette influence and Parisian art deco.

Hallmarks: Official Hungarian assay mark: Diana head in quinquefoil with fineness numeral 3 (800/1000 silver) and city letter P for Budapest/Pest;  Austro-Hungarian system used until 1937. Makers mark S.A. in rectangle; the master is not yet identified (research in progress).

The object: The chanukkiah is the nine-branched ritual candelabrum of the Jewish Festival of Hanukkah. On each of the eight festival evenings an additional candle is lit; the ninth (shamash) serves exclusively to light the others. Silver chanukkiot from the Budapest interwar period with documented hallmarks and fully articulated arm construction are exceptionally rare on the international market.

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