Mirror Depicting King Charles II and Queen Catherine of Braganza

England

Year

1601-1700

Medium

Silk, satin weave; appliquéd with silk and linen, plain weaves, silk, satin cut solid velvet, and silk oblique interlaced tapes; embroidered with silk, linen, and silk-wrapped metal coils and wires in individual back, satin, single satin, tent, and a variety of buttonhole stitches; laid work, couching, cut and loop pile, bullion, and buttonhole picots; glass beads, mica, and seed pearls; edged in silk, plain weave tapes; tortoise shell frame

Dimensions

50.8 × 41.9 × 3.2 cm (20 × 16 1/2 × 1 1/4 in.)

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago