Witney Antiquesさんのイラストまとめ

This 17th-century embroidery of the story of Jephthah's daughter not only retains its exceptional original colour, it also features the loveliest details. There is such attention shown to every stitch, from Jephthah's knit stockings to the shading on his daughter's lute

This impressive circa 1660 embroidered picture depicts King Solomon greeting the Queen of Sheba. The picture is very three-dimensional, with the figures (who have carved wooden hands), fruit, castle, animals, flowers, and a coral-filled grotto all made of raised work

Here are the front doors of the c. 1660 Wilby House cabinet, the full image of which was posted yesterday. We see Abraham, Hagar, and Ishmael in contemporary dress, flanking the cabinet's keyhole. Behind these doors are drawers that once contained a girl's treasured possessions

The Wilby House cabinet, circa 1660, is one of the finest examples to come onto the market in recent years. Its brightness and condition are no doubt due to the fact that it remained in one family, the Marriott family of Suffolk, and was kept in the original wooden carrying box

We're putting the BOX in Boxing Day with this c. 1660 beadwork casket whose original oak carrying case survives. Two figures, male and female, feature on the casket lid whilst the side and back panels are composed of a design incorporating stylised leaves and flowers

Elizabeth Martin, a Quaker, finished her sampler c. 1789. It's very similar to those stitched at the Mountmellick Quaker school in Ireland, of which Elizabeth's parents, Jacob and Sarah, were the first superintendents. The top alphabet and ligatures are typical of Quaker work