Art Institute of Chicago

Picture Depicting the Queen of Sheba before King Solomon

Unrecorded artist

1601/50

Attribution

England

Medium

Silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave; appliquéd with silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin and plain weaves; painted; embroidered with silk, silk 2:2 twill oblique interlaced tapes, gilt- and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, and gilt- and silvered-metal strips, coils, wires and paillettes in satin, single satin, raised stem and a variety of buttonhole stitches; laid work and couching; feathers; glass beads and seed pearls

Physical dimensions

29.3 × 38.8 × 6.4 cm (11 1/2 × 15 1/4 × 2 1/2 in.)

Credit line

Gift of Mrs. Laurance H. Armour, Sr. in memory of her mother, Mrs. Henry Malcolm Withers