Fantastic Old Folk Art Oil Cloth Black Cat with Whiskers and Trousers interdisciplinary book head and two paws raised

head and two paws raised as if begging you for a treat

Once an "attack" has begun to extract one piece

I think this is quite a lovely drawing

While I’d like to imagine the maker of the vessel had Magritte’s famous painting “The Treachery of Images” in mind

but I think it is really wonderful

Fantastic Old Folk Art Oil Cloth Black Cat with Whiskers and Trousers interdisciplinary book head and two paws raisedQuite a cat, hand sewn of oil cloth I think at least a hundred years ago, and surely one of a kind. The terrific pink, heart shaped stitched on nose and mouth are sewn on with the same loop type stitching as used to hold the cat together, and then these fantastic hanging whiskers on either side, some still tipped in yellow paint. Plus red linen trousers held up with buttoned straps. The green sparkly center of one of the beaded eyes is gone and he is