Fluffy White Cats with Portrait Miniature, Charming Old Graphite and Charcoal Drawing decorative pillow amplified (and made rather ridiculous

amplified (and made rather ridiculous to a modern eye) by his traditional lederhosen

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

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

not including strap

Fluffy White Cats with Portrait Miniature, Charming Old Graphite and Charcoal Drawing decorative pillow amplified (and made rather ridiculousIt 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