Gloriously Colorful Old Velvet Piecework Seven Point Star wispy At the top the mask

At the top the mask is strung with sinew thread for hanging

14 1/4" tall

Both in good condition

This looks like the first of the flowering trees in early spring to me

echoed in the patterned wallpapers behind her

Gloriously Colorful Old Velvet Piecework Seven Point Star wispy At the top the maskI found this one at the Rhinebeck show last weekend and thought it fantastically beautiful like the sort of 19th c. geometric watercolors or ink drawings I am always hoping for but rarely finding, and all the better for being stitched together of lushly colored, carefully cut pieces of velvet. And the flip side is as good as the front in a different sort of way, showing the backing as sewn together of pieces of what I believe is sack cloth, some