Auction 68 · Lot 220
(MEGILATH ESTHER).
- Estimate
- $8,000–$12,000
- Hammer price
- Not recorded
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
Place
Dutch
Publication
18th-century
Description
Scroll of Esther accomplished in black ink on vellum. Composed in 17 columns on 4 membranes. Initial column containing a panel for the blessings chanted prior to the reading. The text set within elaborately engraved historiated borders depicting the characters and scenes that populate the Purim narrative. Height: 6.5 inches.
summary
Naphtali Henry Hart (1800-32) was born to Daniel and Bella (Levy) Hart. Daniel Hart was born in Mannheim, Germany and settled in Charleston, South Carolina in the wake of the American Revolution. The senior Hart helped revive the city’s Chamber of Commerce, rebuilt the city’s war-stricken economy and was a major financial contributor to Charleston’s Kahal Kadosh Beth Elo-him. Several Harts married into families with Sephardic names such as Seixas, Lopez, and Lazarus.
Provenance: The late Rabbi Dr. David De Sola Pool.
Stained, faded in places, first membrane detached.
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