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MEGILLAT ESTHER. Scroll of Esther for the festival of Purim. Manuscript in Hebrew, with DRAWN ILLUSTRATION PROBABLY BY SALOM ITALIA.

Auction 25.06.1997
25.06.1997
Schätzpreis
7.000 £ - 10.000 £
ca. 11.510 $ - 16.443 $
Zuschlagspreis:
45.500 £
ca. 74.819 $
Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 34

MEGILLAT ESTHER. Scroll of Esther for the festival of Purim. Manuscript in Hebrew, with DRAWN ILLUSTRATION PROBABLY BY SALOM ITALIA.

Auction 25.06.1997
25.06.1997
Schätzpreis
7.000 £ - 10.000 £
ca. 11.510 $ - 16.443 $
Zuschlagspreis:
45.500 £
ca. 74.819 $
Beschreibung:

MEGILLAT ESTHER. Scroll of Esther for the festival of Purim. Manuscript in Hebrew, with DRAWN ILLUSTRATION PROBABLY BY SALOM ITALIA. [Amsterdam, ca. 1641] Total length of scroll (including added section of 25.3cm): 206.8cm, height: 12.3cm, length of ivory roller (including detached finial): 30.0cm, on 3 membranes (and one added), text in black ink, borders in brown ink, text within 22 monumental rusticated arches with Dutch townscapes, including ships and windmills, framed above the portals, the latter surmounted by broken pediments with putti and vases of flowers, alternate figures of King Ahasuerus and Queen Esther flanking arches, below them 21 scenes from the story, the joins between membranes straddled by figures, a putative original benediction panel replaced by one dated 1688, made for Yitzhaq Yeshurun Mendes, the blessing on a circular piece of parchment inset (and stitched) within a floral cartouche, the free end of the scroll cut to the shape of the final floral ornament (some rubbing and creasing to text and decoration), scroll backed with pink silk (worn and faded), mounted on contemporary (Dutch or German) carved ivory roller with detachable finial in three parts, the central part consisting of a cube turning within a sphere (upper two parts detached, topmost part damaged). PROVENANCE: 1. ?Yitzhaq Yeshurun Mendes, one of a notable Portuguese Jewish family long resident in England (inscription on benediction panel, dated 1688). 2. Samuel Parkes, Haggerstone Chemical Works, Northumberland (inscription at beginning of annexed description of scroll, dated 1810). 3. M. Palmer, Leventhorpe Hall, nr Leeds (inscription on cover of above, dated 1931). APPARENTLY THE ONLY SCROLL WITH DRAWN ILLUSTRATION BY SALOM ITALIA. Salom Italia, perhaps the most distinguished Jewish artist of the 17th century, was born in Portugal before moving first to Mantua and then eventually to Amsterdam in 1641 (where he died sometime after 1655). He is best known for his richly engraved scrolls of Esther (made for reading in the synagogue during the festival of Purim), with their elaborate decorative borders, in particular architectural, in which his main innovation was to set the text within arches modelled on those erected for triumphal entries (perhaps alluding both to the triumph of the Jews of Persia over the wicked vizier Haman who had plotted to destroy them, and to the triumphal procession of Mordecai, uncle of Esther, through the streets of the Persian capital). The drawings on this scroll are very close in style and design to an engraved scroll, signed by Salom Italia, in the Jewish Museum of New York (D76). The loss and replacement of the initial panel of our scroll, which would have carried the signature of the artist, unfortunately makes it impossible to prove with certainty that the scroll is by Salom Italia himself, but it seems highly likely that this scroll is the unique surviving example of a drawn work by the famous engraver, perhaps produced as an early trial. Included in the lot is a manuscript commentary on the scroll, on fourteen leaves, in paper covers, dated 1810, written by Samuel Parkes for presentation to the Society of Antiquaries in Somerset House, and addressed to the Society's secretary, Nicholas Carlisle. R. Wischnitzer, "The Esther Story in Art", in P. Goodman (ed.), Purim Anthology , Philadelphia, 1952, pp.232-4, pl.36. N. Kleeblatt & V.B Mann (eds), Treasures of the Jewish Museum , New York, n.d., no. 64. We would like to express our thanks to Dr. Adri Offenberg, Librarian of the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana in Amsterdam, for his help. (2)

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 34
Auktion:
Datum:
25.06.1997
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
London, King Street
Beschreibung:

MEGILLAT ESTHER. Scroll of Esther for the festival of Purim. Manuscript in Hebrew, with DRAWN ILLUSTRATION PROBABLY BY SALOM ITALIA. [Amsterdam, ca. 1641] Total length of scroll (including added section of 25.3cm): 206.8cm, height: 12.3cm, length of ivory roller (including detached finial): 30.0cm, on 3 membranes (and one added), text in black ink, borders in brown ink, text within 22 monumental rusticated arches with Dutch townscapes, including ships and windmills, framed above the portals, the latter surmounted by broken pediments with putti and vases of flowers, alternate figures of King Ahasuerus and Queen Esther flanking arches, below them 21 scenes from the story, the joins between membranes straddled by figures, a putative original benediction panel replaced by one dated 1688, made for Yitzhaq Yeshurun Mendes, the blessing on a circular piece of parchment inset (and stitched) within a floral cartouche, the free end of the scroll cut to the shape of the final floral ornament (some rubbing and creasing to text and decoration), scroll backed with pink silk (worn and faded), mounted on contemporary (Dutch or German) carved ivory roller with detachable finial in three parts, the central part consisting of a cube turning within a sphere (upper two parts detached, topmost part damaged). PROVENANCE: 1. ?Yitzhaq Yeshurun Mendes, one of a notable Portuguese Jewish family long resident in England (inscription on benediction panel, dated 1688). 2. Samuel Parkes, Haggerstone Chemical Works, Northumberland (inscription at beginning of annexed description of scroll, dated 1810). 3. M. Palmer, Leventhorpe Hall, nr Leeds (inscription on cover of above, dated 1931). APPARENTLY THE ONLY SCROLL WITH DRAWN ILLUSTRATION BY SALOM ITALIA. Salom Italia, perhaps the most distinguished Jewish artist of the 17th century, was born in Portugal before moving first to Mantua and then eventually to Amsterdam in 1641 (where he died sometime after 1655). He is best known for his richly engraved scrolls of Esther (made for reading in the synagogue during the festival of Purim), with their elaborate decorative borders, in particular architectural, in which his main innovation was to set the text within arches modelled on those erected for triumphal entries (perhaps alluding both to the triumph of the Jews of Persia over the wicked vizier Haman who had plotted to destroy them, and to the triumphal procession of Mordecai, uncle of Esther, through the streets of the Persian capital). The drawings on this scroll are very close in style and design to an engraved scroll, signed by Salom Italia, in the Jewish Museum of New York (D76). The loss and replacement of the initial panel of our scroll, which would have carried the signature of the artist, unfortunately makes it impossible to prove with certainty that the scroll is by Salom Italia himself, but it seems highly likely that this scroll is the unique surviving example of a drawn work by the famous engraver, perhaps produced as an early trial. Included in the lot is a manuscript commentary on the scroll, on fourteen leaves, in paper covers, dated 1810, written by Samuel Parkes for presentation to the Society of Antiquaries in Somerset House, and addressed to the Society's secretary, Nicholas Carlisle. R. Wischnitzer, "The Esther Story in Art", in P. Goodman (ed.), Purim Anthology , Philadelphia, 1952, pp.232-4, pl.36. N. Kleeblatt & V.B Mann (eds), Treasures of the Jewish Museum , New York, n.d., no. 64. We would like to express our thanks to Dr. Adri Offenberg, Librarian of the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana in Amsterdam, for his help. (2)

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 34
Auktion:
Datum:
25.06.1997
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
London, King Street
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