England

Picture Depicting the Queen of Sheba Before King Solomon

c. 1660

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

43.4 × 59 cm (17.1 × 23.2 in)