She was the wife successively of Philip the Tetrarch and Aristobulus, son of Herod of Chalcis.

Herod Antipas, pleased by her dancing, offered her a reward "unto the half of my kingdom"; instructed by Herodias, she asked for John the Baptist's "head in a charger".

[1] It was once owned by King Charles I, but having passed through a number of private hands, it was sold at auction for just £8,000 at Christie's, in December 1994, as lot 348, described incorrectly as a work "from the school of Titian".

[4][5][6] Salome is depicted as a beautiful young woman, dressed in the finest clothing, while carrying the severed head of John the Baptist in a charger.

Another woman, possibly a servant, looks from the left, while a young black page is seen at the bottom right.