Cabinet or Box Depicting Scenes from the Old Testament

About this plate

“Cabinet or Box Depicting Scenes from the Old Testament” is a work by Made by Rebecca Stonier Plaisted (English, 1653-1724) England, dated 1668. It is executed in silk, warp-float faced satin weave; embroidered with silk floss, silk yarns, and silk-wrapped-metal purl in brick, bullion, ceylon, chain, knot, lattice filling, overcast, running, satin, smyrna cross, tent, and a variety of buttonhole stitches; laid work, couching, and padded couching; french and turkey knots; applied areas of linen, plain weave; seed pearls, coral beads, and mica; and silk, plain weave with ground weft fringe; edged with gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk and gilt-metal strip, plain weave; silver hardware; wooden frame; lined with marbled paper; silk, plain weave; and silk, plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet and classified as casket. In this archive it sits within the entomological plates, mineralogy & geology tradition. This work is in the public domain (CC0), so the image may be downloaded and reused for any purpose without permission (see the licence note below).