Salome presents the Head of John the Baptist to Herodias and Herod, a rare panel of needlelace worked with the three figures, a snail and a rabbit, the eyes indicated by small black beads and the crowns and dresses outlined with seed pearls, mounted on pink satin, with two tassels--3½ x 5½in. (9 x 13.5cm.) English, early 17th century

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Salome presents the Head of John the Baptist to Herodias and Herod, a rare panel of needlelace worked with the three figures, a snail and a rabbit, the eyes indicated by small black beads and the crowns and dresses outlined with seed pearls, mounted on pink satin, with two tassels--3½ x 5½in. (9 x 13.5cm.) English, early 17th century
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Jourdain, Margaret, "Old Lace", 1908, pp.86-86, plate LXXXIII, lists two examples in the collections of Mrs. Croly and Sir Hubert Jerningham. That in the Jerningham Collection was a sachet which could well be this piece.