Fancy Victorian Gold Lace and Sequin Hand-sewn Evening Fan enamel bowls Hard not to feel deeply

Hard not to feel deeply empathetic toward this guy

Beautifully crafted and beautiful still

This beautiful pair of deconstructed antique Afgani hand-embroidered sleeves would be truly stunning mounted

And it is complete all the way around

Fancy Victorian Gold Lace and Sequin Hand-sewn Evening Fan enamel bowls Hard not to feel deeplyQuite a fan! And what a lot of labor went into making it, with these hundreds of round and star and flower shaped sequins all sewn onto it by hand, gold lace sewn onto it along the top edge, and carved decoration on the sticks, again highlighted in gold. (I really feel like this fan should feature in an ice skating routine!) I found this and two other antique hand fans together, and might guess they were all once part of Miss Fanny Allen's collection,