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Auction 2 · Lot 14
MINIATURE BEZALEL ILLUSTRATED ESTHER SCROLL WITHIN SILVER CASE.
- Estimate
- $3,000–$4,000
- Hammer price
- $2,500
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
Publication
Jerusalem, 1927
Description
Lithographed on vellum, 30 columns on 5 membranes, 5 hand-colored illustrations by ZE’EV RABAN. Case with applied filigree, central roundel depicting Esther before Ahasuerus, upper and lower registers inscribed in Hebrew and English “Membership in Bezalel, 1927”. Width of scroll: 28 mm, length of case: 104 mm. Thumb-piece marked.
summary
Issued as a gift to friends of the Bezalel School. See IMC, Bezalel p. 266 (illustrated)