Auction Closed
December 17, 05:06 PM GMT
Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A PARCEL-GILT SILVER MINIATURE ESTHER SCROLL CASE, THE SILVER SIGNED EZEKIEL [BEN] DAVID NAWI, BAGHDAD, THE SCROLL SIGNED ISAAC [BEN] ♏REUBEN [BEN] SADKAH [BEN] MOSES HUSSEIN, 19TH CENTURY
tik form, withꦕ overall gilt floral embossing on white silver ground, with two Hebrew inscriptions, and gallery of turquoise-color beads; fitted with scroll of Esther, inܫk on parchment
length 7 1/2 in.; 19 cm
height of scroll 2 1/4 in.; 5.6 cm
Lower inscription: “The artisan of this tik was Ezekiel [ꦑben] David Nawi, a resident of Baghdad in the province of Babylonia.”
First panel inscription: “The scribe: Isaac [ben] Reuben [ben] Sadkah [ben] Moses Hussein, may his end b𓄧e favorable.”
The artisan was the brother of one of the dayyanim (rabbinical judges) of Baghdad, Rabbi Reuben ben David Nawi (d. 1821). See Abraham Ben-Yaacob, Yehudei bavel: mi-sof tekufat ha-ge’onim ad yameinu, 4798-5720 (1038-1960) (Jerusalem: Kiryat Sefer, 1979), 136 n. 85.