Cushion with Solomon and Sheba
Unknown
mid-17th century · Canvas worked with silk and metal thread, seed pearls; tent, Gobelin, and couching stitches · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
The scene of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba was probably worked from a commercially available kit, as a raised-work embroidery of the same design is also known.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- mid-17th century
- Medium
- Canvas worked with silk and metal thread, seed pearls; tent, Gobelin, and couching stitches
- Culture
- British
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964
