Picture Depicting the Queen of Sheba Before King Solomon. 1650–1670. England. 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

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Size: 3000px × 1885px
Photo credit: © WBC ART / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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