Very Fine Antique Needle Lace Crowing Bird, Framed  signed Japanese fan appealed to me personally

appealed to me personally

with a full head of bristles and just light wear to the blonde wood handle

) on rocky outcrop looking as if forlornly gesturing toward the sea and sky

but when I happened upon this painting close to home

Very Fine Antique Needle Lace Crowing Bird, Framed  signed Japanese fan appealed to me personallyI can't get enough of figural lace, and this particular type style of needle lace is my favorite sort (I believe Belgian in origin), with what looks like a million tiny tight knots making up the bird alone. The wonderful spiderweb like field surrounding it here suggests a nest to me, as if it might have come with open beak to feed the babies, though as the bird appears to have a comb and wattle (launching this a wonderful arch of triangles, like a