Based on a Chanukah menorah (Chanukiat in Hebrew) housed in the synagogue museum at ul. Seroka (Seroka street) in Krakow, Poland, which I visited in 1984 and 1985. A photo of the menorah can be seen in the book Polish Art & Culture (Interpress, Warsaw, 1983).

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Notes written around 2002:

The 12 hand-painted images on the frame are derived from the metal-embossed gold-colored cover of a Hebrew siddur (prayer book) I received as a gift for my 1963 Bar Mitzvah at Temple Sholom of Floral Park, in Queens, N.Y.       
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A few years ago I was amazed to see a recent version of the same publisher's prayer book, with color in the embossed cover's metal design, on the bookshelf at someone's home where I was visiting.

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Bibliography:  

The work was featured as a full-page color reproduction on the cover of the The Jewish Transcript Chanukah issue, December 5, 1997, Seattle.

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Collection of Stacy Lawson