Fluffy White Cats with Portrait Miniature, Charming Old Graphite and Charcoal Drawing decorative pillow One often sees piqué work

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

and I have done a bit of repair to the top side seams

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

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

A great old carpenter's square

Fluffy White Cats with Portrait Miniature, Charming Old Graphite and Charcoal Drawing decorative pillow One often sees piqué workIt 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