Exquisite Hand Embroidered Hand Bag, Silver and Gold Metallic Thread on Velvet chic and other than some dryness

and other than some dryness is in very good condition still

Though not easy to photograph (it looks crisper and sharper in reality than photos portray)

One can also see a good bit of the patterning on the rug upon which they sit

and I like it more and more the more I look at it

I think I'd hang it on the wall from the head

Exquisite Hand Embroidered Hand Bag, Silver and Gold Metallic Thread on Velvet chic and other than some drynessNot 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