Mezuzah case, Italian motif

Catalog number 204

Materials: High-fired porcelain

One of four porcelain mezuzah cases in the line, with the Italian, contemporary, oil jar, and David's Tower designs. The cases were reproductions in porcelain of Arnold's earlier bronze designs, about five inches tall, in white or Wedgwood blue.

From the studio catalog, 1995

The Jerusalem artist Jo Milgrom made a piece she called "Bezeq after Arnold Schwarzbart, Knoxville, Tennessee" from one of these cases, with a telephone cable attached where the letter shin would show. Bezeq is the Israeli telephone company.

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Arnold Schwarzbart, z"l. March 10, 1942 to March 16, 2015.

His papers are held as the Arnold Schwarzbart Collection, MSC 0576, in the Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection at the Knox County Public Library. Eulogies and tributes are collected under Remembrances.