Picture Depicting the Queen of Sheba Before King Solomon
Place
England (Object made in)
Date
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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.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Alexander and family in memory of Berniece Hill Alexander
Reference Number
1987.255
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Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1987-88, 33.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Gift, Bequest and Purchase: A Selection of Textile Acquisitions from 1982–1987, Mar. 18–Aug. 14, 1989.
Art Institute of Chicago, Department of European Decorative Arts, Gallery 68/69, Sept. 20, 2002-Mar. 13, 2003.
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