Objects

The round copper plate with a narrow rim was originally plated. The whole surface is occupied by the Star of David with a flower branch within it. In the spaces between the arms of the star, there are Hebrew words arranged circularly written in unskilled handwriting: "maror" (bitter herb), "karp" (probably an abbreviation of "karpas" (celery or parsley), "chazeret" (?) (the second bitter herb, misspelt), "charoset" (literally clay - a dessert of apples and dried fruits), "bszch" (?) (probably a mistake for the word "bejca" (egg) and "zeroa" (literally arm - roasted meat with bone). The dish resembles a Seder plate for the Passover supper, although it is slightly smaller than the plates usually used. It cannot be ruled out that the point-applied decoration was added later, not when the plate was created. On the rim, from inside the plate, there are hallmarks: an illegible letter in a vertical oval and the inscription "MET S".

The item was purchased for the collection of the Lublin Open Air Village Museum in 2007 from a collector from Warsaw who had bought it at an antiques fair in Warsaw in 1985–1999.