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Object Name |
Seder Plate |
Date |
ca. 1915 |
Place of Origin |
Limoges, France |
Medium |
Limoges porcelain, hand painted with gold rim |
Dimensions |
13 in. (33 cm) diameter |
Accession Number |
F.03.57 |
Credit line |
Gift of Daniel M. Friedenberg |
About This Work |
This seder plate is decorated with a hand-painted illustration of a tiered seder plate set with ritual foods and stars of David. The rim of the plate is inscribed with the Hebrew words for the fifteen parts of a traditional Passover seder. Beginning at lower right, and moving counterclockwise: "kadesh" (sanctification); "urchatz" (ritual hand washing, without blessing); "karpas" (dipping a vegetable in salt water); "yachatz" (breaking the middle matzah); "maggid" (telling the Passover story); "rachtzah" (ritual hand washing, with blessing); "motzi" (blessing over the matzah); "matzah" (blessing over eating the matzah; "maror" (eating the bitter herbs); "korech" (making and eating the sandwich of matzah, maror, and charoset); "shulchan orech" (the festive meal); "tzafun" (eating the Afikomen); "barech" (grace after meals); "hallel" (psalms of praise); "nirtzah" (conclusion). |