Exquisite Hand Embroidered Hand Bag, Silver and Gold Metallic Thread on Velvet hardwood box and most definitely a really

and most definitely a really wonderful little object

but certainly shows age and a bit of loss here and there

)  I've learned that she is one of a set of 16 such dolls

Table measures 5" t x 3 9/16" x 3 3/16"

Exquisite Hand Embroidered Hand Bag, Silver and Gold Metallic Thread on Velvet hardwood box and most definitely a reallyNot exactly my usual thing (and my handbag of choice is a New Yorker tote) but the embroidery on this handbag is so fine and so beautiful I completely fell in love with it (and really feel like someone should carry it to a Met gala!) In trying to research and place it, I realized that what the metallic embroidery in gold and silver reminds me most of is a 19th c. French or Italian reliquary I recently had incorporating very elaborate metallic thread