The Brooklyn Navy Yard Building 77, 141 Flushing Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205, United States
The Marx Library (Part II).
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Sepher Tehilim [Book of Psalms]. (Vinograd, Amsterdam 1939).
Finely Bound in filigree silver
Dutch(?) c. 1800, over green silk covers, with gilt edged pages.
Featuring two filigree C-scroll clasps, the silver covers are decorated with two stylized flower-heads, central rosette and with fleur-de-lis at the angles. The spine in four sections with foliate scrolls and corded borders.
Height: 5 inches (12.5 cm).
Housed in associated green leather slipcase with gilt-tooled borders.
Amsterdam, Proops Frères, 1767.
Provenance:
Christie's Amsterdam, Important Silver, Objects of Vertu and Russian Works of Art,
April 27th 2004, Lot 275.
