Very Fine Antique Needle Lace Crowing Bird, Framed  signed Japanese fan and making it seem rather

and making it seem rather as if having endured a surgical procedure

but when I happened upon this painting close to home

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Wear to the interior edges of the case and fabric and some degrading to the image as evident

Just a sweet thing

Very Fine Antique Needle Lace Crowing Bird, Framed  signed Japanese fan and making it seem ratherI can't get enough of figural lace, and this particular type style of needle lace is my favorite sort (I believe Belgian in origin), with what looks like a million tiny tight knots making up the bird alone. The wonderful spiderweb like field surrounding it here suggests a nest to me, as if it might have come with open beak to feed the babies, though as the bird appears to have a comb and wattle (launching this a wonderful arch of triangles, like a