A similar line of tower-like containers are German Hanukkah spice boxes, a parallel proposed a while ago by You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. in the context of the small-plants section containers.
Spices have been used in the havdalah ceremony since antiquity, but a spice-container is first mentioned in rabbinical sources only in the 12th century. Early extant examples, by 16th-century German goldsmiths, were made in the shape of towers, a form that has remained popular in many Ashkenazi communities.
The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. I attached a couple of manuscript illustrations suggesting that the boxes already were architecture-like in the XV Century.
Spices have been used in the havdalah ceremony since antiquity, but a spice-container is first mentioned in rabbinical sources only in the 12th century. Early extant examples, by 16th-century German goldsmiths, were made in the shape of towers, a form that has remained popular in many Ashkenazi communities.
The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. I attached a couple of manuscript illustrations suggesting that the boxes already were architecture-like in the XV Century.