Basket of Red Berries, Charming c. Mid 19th Century Small Needlepoint in Hand-dyed Wool pipe cleaner doll and one of my very

and one of my very favorite things I've found

I just found it a phenomenal sculptural object

though I can't look at a gold-painted monkey without thinking of Jeff Koons' Michael and Bubbles

perhaps both having come out of the same estate somewhere

Basket of Red Berries, Charming c. Mid 19th Century Small Needlepoint in Hand-dyed Wool pipe cleaner doll and one of my veryA small needlepoint, and a very sweet one, which feels like a miniature welcome mat to me, and which I'd be inclined to frame and hang near the front door. (I didn't have the right frame around or I would have, I think it wants a nice wide edged black or grain painted one around it.) I believe mid 19th century or so, hand dyed wool, I presume cut down from a larger piece, but with those rounded corners it feels like its own resolved thing. And feels