Auction 83 - Part I - Rare and Important Items
Ornate Silver Binding with Emblem of the Pugliese Family – Italy, 18th Century / Prayer Book According to the Italian Rite – Venice, 1772 – Copy owned by Elisa Ottolenghi Segre
Opening: $12,000
Estimate: $15,000 - $20,000
Sold for: $30,000
Including buyer's premium
Mahzor (prayer book) for regular use during the entire year, according to the Italian ("Italiani") rite. Venice, [1772]. Two parts in one volume, with ornate silver binding bearing emblem of the Pugliese family.
Front and back binding with cartouches and scrolling acanthus leaves as decorative elements; the front cartouche contains the Pugliese family emblem – a house with a spiraling chimney. The back cartouche remains blank. Spine with vegetal patterns.
A Pugliese family emblem, similar to the one on the present binding, has also been documented on a ketubah (marriage contract) from Casale Monferrato in the Piedmont region of Italy, dated 1672, now in the collection of the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) of America, KET 32. Another ketubah originating from the same place, dated 1756, also bears a Pugliese family emblem, albeit slightly different from the others insofar as it features a house with flames erupting through the doorway (see "Il matrimonio ebraico, le ketubbot dell'Archivio Terracini, a cura di Micaela Vitale, " Torino, 1997, p. 164). A third ketubah relevant to this subject, also from the JTS collection (KET 333), drawn in Mantua, Italy, and dated 1865, documents the marriage of a son of the Pugliese family to a daugher of the Segre family (see below). A faded ownership notation on the flyleaf opposite the title page, dating from the 19th century, gives the name " Elisa Ottolenghi Segre"; in all likelihood, this is the signature of Elisa (Leah) Ottolenghi née Segre (d. 1922), wife of Giuseppe Ottolenghi (1838-1904), a Jewish Italian politician and army officer who served as a senator and as the Italian government's minister of war, and also held a number of high-ranking military positions.
Binding: Silver (unmarked), repoussé and engraved. Height: 18 cm. Width: 13.5 cm. Spine width: 6 cm. Good condition. Silver clasps, head cap and tail cap may have been replaced in the 19th century.
Prayer book: 224 [i. e. 284] ff; 322 ff. Stains. Minor creases. Minor worming and few tears (with minor damage to text). Detached leaf and several loose leaves. Margins of two final leaves reinforced with paper strips.
For an additional binding bearing the Pugliese family emblem, see: Sotheby's, Important Judaica, New York, 20 December 2017, lot 86.
Front and back binding with cartouches and scrolling acanthus leaves as decorative elements; the front cartouche contains the Pugliese family emblem – a house with a spiraling chimney. The back cartouche remains blank. Spine with vegetal patterns.
A Pugliese family emblem, similar to the one on the present binding, has also been documented on a ketubah (marriage contract) from Casale Monferrato in the Piedmont region of Italy, dated 1672, now in the collection of the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) of America, KET 32. Another ketubah originating from the same place, dated 1756, also bears a Pugliese family emblem, albeit slightly different from the others insofar as it features a house with flames erupting through the doorway (see "Il matrimonio ebraico, le ketubbot dell'Archivio Terracini, a cura di Micaela Vitale, " Torino, 1997, p. 164). A third ketubah relevant to this subject, also from the JTS collection (KET 333), drawn in Mantua, Italy, and dated 1865, documents the marriage of a son of the Pugliese family to a daugher of the Segre family (see below). A faded ownership notation on the flyleaf opposite the title page, dating from the 19th century, gives the name " Elisa Ottolenghi Segre"; in all likelihood, this is the signature of Elisa (Leah) Ottolenghi née Segre (d. 1922), wife of Giuseppe Ottolenghi (1838-1904), a Jewish Italian politician and army officer who served as a senator and as the Italian government's minister of war, and also held a number of high-ranking military positions.
Binding: Silver (unmarked), repoussé and engraved. Height: 18 cm. Width: 13.5 cm. Spine width: 6 cm. Good condition. Silver clasps, head cap and tail cap may have been replaced in the 19th century.
Prayer book: 224 [i. e. 284] ff; 322 ff. Stains. Minor creases. Minor worming and few tears (with minor damage to text). Detached leaf and several loose leaves. Margins of two final leaves reinforced with paper strips.
For an additional binding bearing the Pugliese family emblem, see: Sotheby's, Important Judaica, New York, 20 December 2017, lot 86.
Graphic Art, Drawings, Jewish Ceremonial Art and Various Objects
Graphic Art, Drawings, Jewish Ceremonial Art and Various Objects