SOLD Bold and Lyrical Antique Hanging Pin Keep / Needle Book 19th c portrait watercolor With an old fold line

With an old fold line down the center

and 1 box of twenty 8 3/4" x 7 5/8" "Small Parquetry Designs III"

Their fronts show five layers of stacked chip carved wood at the corners

and most likely this is the Emperor and Empress

with light fold marks and a few edge tears here and there

SOLD Bold and Lyrical Antique Hanging Pin Keep / Needle Book 19th c portrait watercolor With an old fold lineThis one for me is all about color and pattern, with this great color blocking of tan and (thinly striped) blue and white silk on the face, turned into a drawing with the lyrical application of that red thread. Feels like a poem, and a painting. The hinged face flips up to reveal several fabric "pages" for holding needles underneath, and then room for pins all around the sides. With green silk moire on reverse. 7" t (as hung) x 3 3 8" w x 3 4" d.