A CHARLES II STUMPWORK NEEDLEWORK PICTURE

A CHARLES II STUMPWORK NEEDLEWORK PICTURE

C.1670-80

worked with silver and gold metal thread and with raised work, depicting the Biblical story of the reception of the Queen of Sheba by King Solomon, the black Queen accompanied by two ladies in waiting, the King seated on a throne under a canopy, with a lion and a unicorn in the distance, with a deer and a caterpillar, in a later glazed ebonised frame

21.9 x 36.6cm

Provenance

The contents of The Grange, Wendover.