A work made of silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave; embroidered with silk floss and yarns, gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, gilt metal purl and cardboard in brick, overcast, running, satin, and split stitches; couching, padded couching and laid work; french knots, braided pom pons and seed pearls; in tortoise-shell frame.

Mirror Showing King Charles II, Queen Catherine of Braganza, and Scenes from the Old Testament

c. 1665

England

Silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave; embroidered with silk floss and yarns, gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, gilt metal purl and cardboard in brick, overcast, running, satin, and split stitches; couching, padded couching and laid work; French knots, braided pom pons and seed pearls; in tortoise-shell frame

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