Wonderful Antique Handmade Bobbin Lace Woman with Scythe antique painters palette Marked Clinton near the end

Marked Clinton near the end of the handle

Louis Fair

best of all

Her right hand is a bit lower

They're  just wonderful objects that could be great used to hold a hair bun in place

Wonderful Antique Handmade Bobbin Lace Woman with Scythe antique painters palette Marked Clinton near the endThis special thing is a piece of late 19th century figural Italian Cantu lace, entirely made by hand. At the center is this wonderful raised appliqud woman holding a scythe, with a patch of wheat before her, flowers and a butterfly at her back, and perhaps the shade of a few leafy branches overhead, all set amid this great net like ground. Perhaps it was once part of a tablecloth decoration, I'm not sure, but now I'd treat it as the work of art it is