Exquisite Hand Embroidered Hand Bag, Silver and Gold Metallic Thread on Velvet chic which turns it into an

which turns it into an object

and I like it more and more the more I look at it

I think I'd hang it on the wall from the head

with very light wear and minor aging/ warping to the cardboard roof

Building itself: 8 7/8” t x 4 x 4 1/16

Exquisite Hand Embroidered Hand Bag, Silver and Gold Metallic Thread on Velvet chic which turns it into anNot 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