Picture Depicting the Queen of Sheba Before King Solomon

England

Date

c. 1660

Medium

Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk floss, creped silk yarns, linen yarns, silvered-metal wire, silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, and silvered-metal strips, wire and coils in back, bullion, Ceylon, overcast, oblique Gobelin, plaited braid, satin, split, tent, and a variety of buttonhole stitches; laid work, couching, and Turk's head knots with bullion picots; embellished with metal coils and paillettes; beaded with seed pearls, and glass and coral beads; applied braid of hammered gilt metal

Dimensions

43.4 × 59 cm (17 × 23 1/4 in.)

Department

Textiles

Credit line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Alexander and family in memory of Berniece Hill Alexander