SASSOON: A Golden Legacy

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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

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December 17, 05:06 PM GMT

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7,000 - 10,000 USD

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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, with overall gilt floral embossing on white silver ground, with two Hebrew inscriptions, and gallery of turquoise-color beads; fitted with scroll of Esther, ink on parchment

length 7 1/2 in.; 19 cm

height of scroll 2 1/4 in.; 5.6 cm

David Solomon Sassoon, Ohel Dawid: Descriptive Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the Sassoon Library, London, vol. 1 (Oxford: Oxford University Press; London: Humphrey Milford, 1932), 557 (no. 478).

Upper inscription: “The benefactor Zevi Hirsch of Manchester was born in Teterow in the province of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.”

Lower inscription: “The artisan of this tik was Ezekiel [ben] 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 be 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.