A raised needlework picture worked in coloured silks, chenille and metal threads in satin, detached buttonhole, tent and other stitches, depicting Soloman and the Queen of Sheba, with an elegant house, trees, sun, moon and a windmill behind, a lion, caterpillar, a fishpond and a thrush in the foreground--28 x 22in. (70 x 55cm.), framed and glazed, English, mid 17th century, re-applied to later ivory satin ground