STUMPWORK CUSHION COVER SAID TO REPRESENT KING SOLOMON RECEIVING THE QUEEN OF SHEBA, MID-17TH CENTURY

STUMPWORK CUSHION COVER SAID TO REPRESENT KING SOLOMON RECEIVING THE QUEEN OF SHEBA, MID-17TH CENTURY

worked in tent, satin, couching, French knot, rococo, and other stitches with pearl and metal thread on a silver ground within a silver lace border; the reverse bearing a Milwaukee Art Museum exhibition label
Height with frame 15 in. by Width 21 ½ in.; 38.1 by 54.6 cm.

Condition Report:
In good condition with scattered losses, wear to border and oxidation to metallic thread consistent with age. Restoration to faces. Frame with scattered losses and scratches.

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Provenance:
Katherine Christophers, King's Mill, Painswick, Gloucestershire;

The Marjorie Wiggin-Prescott Collection, Christie's New York, January 31, 1981, lot 99;

Vogel Collection no. 342.