NEW YORK CITY - Jewish Museum -18th Century Spice Container: The Jewish Museum is an art museum and repository of cultural artifacts, housed at 1109 Fifth Avenue, in the former Felix M. Warburg House, along the Museum Mile in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. The first Jewish museum in the United States, as well as the oldest existing Jewish museum in the world, it contains the largest collection of art and Jewish culture excluding Israeli museums, more than 30,000 objects. While its collection was established in 1904 at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, the museum did not open to the public until 1947 when Felix Warburg's widow sold the property to the Seminary. It focuses both on artifacts of Jewish history and on modern and contemporary art. The card's reverse informs on its reverse: "SPICE CONTAINER, Italy, 18th Century. Silver filigree, with enamel plaques and colored stones, 8⅛" high. The Jewish Museum, Purim Ball Fund Purchase. A blessing over spices is one of the prayers of the Habdalah ceremony, which ushers out the Sabbath each week." This Photochromatic postcard is in good condition. © The Jewish Museum, N.Y. 1964. Photography by Sandak, Inc.