A Parcel-Gilt Silver Filigree Book Binding, probably Dutch, Late 17th to Early 18th Century
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
each panel centered by a gilt filigree roundel with mirror cypher, flanked by gilt rosettes, in a framework of white silver filigree flowers and foliage with faceted red pastes, the spine with four panels of rosettes, similar clasps, apparently unmarked, losses and repairs, fitted with a miniature Mishna printed in Amsterdam, 1713, at the House of Solomon Proops, lacking title and first three folios.
height 5 in.
12.6 cm
Mirror cyphers such as the ones on this binding were popular in Holland and England in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, as can be seen in Jeremiah Marlow's A Book of Cyphers or Letters Reverst, London, 1683, and Samuel Sympson's New Book of Cyphers, London, circa 1716.
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