Woman of Mystery, Antique Tapestry/Embroidery Covered Powder Box with Mirror skyscraper bank and thrashing

and thrashing

due I believe to the voluminous

Wonderfully graphic and pretty fabulous

Definitely useful still

Woman of Mystery, Antique Tapestry/Embroidery Covered Powder Box with Mirror skyscraper bank and thrashingSo many things little things to fall in love with and my weakness for boxes of all sorts only seems to grow, all the better when they deliver a portrait, too! I've not seen another quite like this, with the portrait appearing to have been woven as a tapestry, though perhaps finely embroidered, as it has remained pretty much in tact while the the plum ground is pretty threadbare. I love the effects of time and wear, making our rather Mona Lisa esque