Very Fine Antique Needle Lace Crowing Bird, Framed  signed Japanese fan The key on this does

The key on this does still turn with some force

all set amid this great net-like ground

and making it seem rather as if having endured a surgical procedure

Frame shows wear and a few surface chips though I'd probably leave as is

appealed to me personally

Very Fine Antique Needle Lace Crowing Bird, Framed  signed Japanese fan The key on this doesI 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