Fluffy White Cats with Portrait Miniature, Charming Old Graphite and Charcoal Drawing decorative pillow clearly the watercolors portray proposed

clearly the watercolors portray proposed costumes for members of the Brown family in a play--though what play I am not sure

One often sees piqué work on pieces like this --decorative work made by inlaying tiny points or pins of silver

Designed by Nils Thorsson and produced by Royal Copenhagen as part of its Baca series in the late 60s or so

wrapped in iron wire

features wonderful full page caricatures of "the sovereigns" of the era by Portuguese painter and caricaturist Tomás Júlio Leal da Câmara (1876-1948)

Fluffy White Cats with Portrait Miniature, Charming Old Graphite and Charcoal Drawing decorative pillow clearly the watercolors portray proposedIt was a week for cats (which, being a childless cat lady, seems only fitting) and this is the drawing that kicked it off. About as good an embodiment of a snuggle as can be I'd say, and with the implied presence of a third party, too, represented in the portrait miniature of a woman tucked under the paw of front facing cat. (I would guess a portrait of the woman drawing the picture, who wanted to nestle herself into it and there's a nice loop formed