Black Cat on Roof with Headphones Antique Hand-colored French Postcard toy puppet just inside the edge of

just inside the edge of the tile

and almost certainly mid-century

Featuring a depiction of a woman in yellow blouse with green and white striped skirt carrying a basket on her head

It's got a great shape and an earthy pale purple glaze that interacts wonderfully with the striated body of the vase

and some little dings mostly on one side

Black Cat on Roof with Headphones Antique Hand-colored French Postcard toy puppet just inside the edge ofSuch a fun one! I just double checked and it was in 1910 that engineer Nathaniel Baldwin invented the first pair of audio headphones resembling modern day pairs (at his kitchen table); it is a bit hard to read the postmarks on this old postcard, but I think it dates to not long after, I think 1915. Whatever the case, what a great image of this black cat on red roof with yellow headphones plugged into a sort of wire prism suspended between the clouds,