MEGILATH ESTHER.
AUCTION 66 |
Thursday, November 19th,
2015 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Ceremonial Objects and Graphic Art
Lot 102
MEGILATH ESTHER.
Cologne, 1843
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
PRICE REALIZED $4,000
<<Most scarce.>>
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.