Primary Description:
Colorless glass with silvery gray backing; glass presumably blown, cut to shape and backed, then mounted in frame. Rectangular wooden panel covered on both sides and edges with bone attachments, and with small iron hook at center of upper edge; on front, triangular pediment, all three sides consisting of three rectangular strips set on edge, the outermost plain, the inner two denticulated and bearing traces of gesso, containing triangular panel with menorah in reddish brown paint, and with triangular panels with reddish brown geometric decoration filling upper corners of plaque; below pediment, at sides of panel, two columns with groups of horizontal grooves at top and bottom, resting on plain horizontal strip at bottom of panel; between columns, rectangular panel with carefully executed circular hole at center, surrounded by simple molding; behind and secured by this panel, mirror with convex surface; back of plaque has single panel with incised decoration of figure in full-length robe with either large nimbus or mantle billowing behind head, standing beneath shallow arch supported by spirally fluted columns with capitals and bases.