Amazing Handmade Bobbin Lace Medallions - Woman and Man (or Ghost!) facial meaning just teeming with the love

just teeming with the love and care of many many hard-trying hours invested in it

Measures: 11 5/8" wide x  6" deep x 3 1/4" tall

surely as reinforcement

The frame (with pretty little acorn at top holding a hanging ring) tells me that this inked silhouette dates to the 1830s or so

with beautifully turned fruitwood ends

Amazing Handmade Bobbin Lace Medallions - Woman and Man (or Ghost!) facial meaning just teeming with the loveWhat a lot of work went into making these two bobbin lace medallions or doilies done by hand, with very fine thread (silk I believe) and what a lo0t of patience and manual dexterity required! I'm a huge fan of figural bobbin lace and have seen one or two round pieces like this with a figure similar to the ghost like man at center, but never as part of a pair with a female companion (and what a great skirt on her!) I'd frame them together side by side