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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
Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 USD
Lot Details
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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
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.