Fluffy White Cats with Portrait Miniature, Charming Old Graphite and Charcoal Drawing decorative pillow A great old carpenter's square

A great old carpenter's square

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

evoking the sense that these five figures--especially the man at center--were plowing their way through the water

not including strap

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

Fluffy White Cats with Portrait Miniature, Charming Old Graphite and Charcoal Drawing decorative pillow A great old carpenter's squareIt 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