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Auction 7 · Lot 152
FINE ITALIAN SILVER BINDING. Palermo, ca. 1770.
- Estimate
- $6,000–$9,000
- Hammer price
- $27,000
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
Description
Embossed overall on covers and spine with Baroque style decoration, including shells, swirls, foliage, crown; bird on branch (Family crest?) added to central medallion. Two cast hasps bear different marks; Viborg, Denmark, 17th century (Tardy, p.102.) Marked on lower edge of back cover (Tardy, p.290). FITTED WITH: Hebrew Prayer-Book, Machzor shel kol Hashanah. According to Roman rite, liturgy for the entire year. Two parts in one volume. 4to [Vinograd, Venice 1988]. Venice, 1772
summary
PROVENANCE:
1. Metropolitan Costache Callimachi of Moldavia. Purchased in Rome whilst on an ecumenical visit to Pope.
Clement XIV, 1774.
2. King Scarlat Callimachi of Moldavia (d. 1790).
3. King Dimitri Callimachi of Moldavia (d. 1813).
By descent within the Family to the present owner H.E. Prince Nicolai Callimachi, distinguished historian in Bucharest, Romania.