Exquisite Hand Embroidered Hand Bag, Silver and Gold Metallic Thread on Velvet group of carved animals flip it to the heart

flip it to the heart to spread the love:)

Wood with plexiglass window

I'd guess this basket dates to the first half of the 20th century

some scratches

7 1/4” t measured on square

Exquisite Hand Embroidered Hand Bag, Silver and Gold Metallic Thread on Velvet group of carved animals flip it to the heartNot 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