The illustration shows four servants bowing before Haman who is a central figure of the composition. On the right, sits Mordecai who does not bow to the vizier. The scene is labeled ומרדכי לא יכרע ולא ישתחוה ‒ "but Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence." (Es. 3:3).
The scroll features a mixture of Persian miniatures with Western-orientalist symbolic elements characteristic for Raban's works.
Toward the end of the 1920s, the Bezalel School produced two printed Esther scrolls with illustrations that were later hand-colored. For the bigger one, see 081.012.051. This is the smaller of the two and was apparently printed in 1927, placed in a silver case, and sent to supporters of the Bezalel School abroad.
No bibliography on the scroll is available.
For more information on the artist see Zeev Raban (Ravitzki), Information Center for Israeli Art, https://museum.imj.org.il (30.12.2019).
Some works of Zeev Raban are available on: Zeev Raban, Artists, http://www.artnet.com (30.12.2019).