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

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January 26, 08:38 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 8,000 USD

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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.

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.

Katherine Christophers, "Fine Arts And Antiques Festival," Printed by Southern Press, 1974

A very similar cushion, albeit with no raised work, is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and illustrated in Yvonne Hackenbroch, English and Other Needlework Tapestries and Textiles in the Irwin Untermyer Collection (Cambridge 1960), pl. 11.