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Silver dish decorated on the inside with figures and landscapes.

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Purim Charity Plate

1590–1611

Partially unraveled scroll with Hebrew text in rounded columns and decorative border and individual page next to it with Hebrew text and circular border.

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Esther Scroll (Amsterdam)

Abraham de Chaves

1687

Page of printed Hebrew text surrounded by arches and decorative flowers and foliage, and town scenes in bottom register.

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Esther Scroll (Venice)

Aryeh Leyb ben Daniel | Francesco Griselini

1746

Manuscript scroll page with Hebrew text and decorated border with illustrations of cherubs, faces, animals, ribbons, and flowers.

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Scroll of the Book of Esther

Andrea Marelli

1573

Manuscript scroll page of Hebrew text with illustrated figures, one on horseback, on top.

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Scroll of the Book of Esther

Moses Pescarol

1616

Scroll manuscript page with Hebrew text in four columns, with illustrations on top of figures seated talking to each other, working by a tree, and walking; the middle sections feature ladders and people working on trees; the bottom features elephants and rhinoceroses.

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Scroll of the Book of Esther

ca. 1630

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Queen Esther

Charles Reznikoff

1917

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Second Haman

Shomer (Nokhem Meir Shaykevitch)

1896

Photograph of several women in dresses and headdresses with rug and cooking implements on the floor.

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Esther Play for Purim

1914

Illustration in three horizontal and one vertical panel, depicting figures on horseback, a king, a row of soldiers in chains, and a man hanging.

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Purim Story

Moshe Mizrachi

1902

Painting in three horizontal panels, featuring a king on throne, a queen, several figures on horseback, and a hanging of a man on the bottom right.

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Purim Story Painting

Joseph Zvi Geiger

1893

Print with small Hebrew text arranged in the shape of a columned building, with a ribbon of text and two fish in the center.

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Purim Page (Mi-she-nikhnas adar)

Early 20th Century