SOLD Wonderful Folk Art Needle Lace Medallion: Robed Woman with Book (Mourning Picture?) dancing dolls There is one surface scratch

There is one surface scratch to one side of the aqua cup

just looking at this little lion inspires longing for a nice long soak

In addition to illustrations

as most I have in this style contain an interior compartment--usually concealed by a sliding top--for stashing snuff (ground tobacco

SOLD Wonderful Folk Art Needle Lace Medallion: Robed Woman with Book (Mourning Picture?) dancing dolls There is one surface scratchI've always got an eye out for handmade figurative lace, the folkier and more singular the better, so was delighted to find this piece this week, most of all for the fact that its subject holds a book in her hand! Though I'm not certain, I might guess this was made as a mourning piece, with our somewhat mournful looking woman holding one hand over her heart and perhaps reading a prayer from the book in the other, standing in front of what looks like