Artist: Job Adriaenszoon Berckheyde
Title: The Lace Maker
Date of artist: 1640-1691
Nationality: Dutch
Pillow: domed, flat back, with drawer, sloping towards lacemaker, on lacemaker's lap.
Bobbins: with bulbs on end, on pillow, reasonable number
Comments: You can't see much of the pillow apart from the back, but there is a good spread of bobbins. The pillow has two drawers.
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