SOLD Wonderful Folk Art Needle Lace Medallion: Robed Woman with Book (Mourning Picture?) vintage spice chest Woman measures 2 1/4" r

Woman measures 2 1/4" r

or a fantastic wrap to wear with a little black dress on an evening out

I purchased this painting by Lois Gross Smiley (1925-2018) out of the studio of her estate in Wellesley

and I think they must be luckier

with a tail that doubles as a handle should one want to wear him around one's neck or otherwise carry him around

SOLD Wonderful Folk Art Needle Lace Medallion: Robed Woman with Book (Mourning Picture?) vintage spice chest Woman measures 2 1/4" rI'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