MEGILATH ESTHER.
AUCTION 59 |
Thursday, June 20th,
2013 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Ceremonial Objects and Works of Art
Lot 77
MEGILATH ESTHER.
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
<<Of exceptional rarity.>>
Another copy of this exquisite engraved Esther Scroll is in the collection of the Jewish Museum, London. The Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary also has a copy, however it has been cut into 11 leaves and pasted into a book.
Few engraved Esther scrolls exist. The Hungarian artist Mordechai Donath created one in Nitra a decade prior to the present Cologne example. See I. Benoschofsky and A. Scheiber, The Jewish Museum of Budapest (1987) no. 203.