Writing Box Depicting King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
1601–1700
- Medium
- Wooden box; beaded with silk and glass beads; appliquéd with beaded figures worked over cotton padding and silk, satin weave; embroidered with silk in satin and single satin stitches; couching and seed pearls; metal hinges
- Dimensions
- 13.3 × 35 × 25.8 cm (5 1/4 × 13 3/4 × 10 1/8 in.)
- Genre
- Textiles
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
silk (textile)needlework (visual works)decorative artssatin weavingTextilecouching (embroidering)glass beadsembroidering