Woman with Lace Making Pillow, Self-Referential Antique Bobbin Lace Doily in Original Frame spencerian Portrait itself

Portrait itself

(They require candles a bit smaller than your average taper

and it is wonderfully wonky

with next to no paint loss

paper cutting-- made using Froebel's proscribed "cutting papers

Woman with Lace Making Pillow, Self-Referential Antique Bobbin Lace Doily in Original Frame spencerian Portrait itselfA bit hard to capture this well due to glare, but I've done my best it is celluloid rather than glass in the frame, original to it, c. 1890s 1900 I believe. I love a piece of antique handmade figural lace, and I especially love things that are self referential, and here we have both: a piece of antique handmade bobbin lace with a picture at center of a seated woman with lace making pillow on her lap. (I've included a photo of the type of pillow used