Best Ever Very Old Black Cat Doorstop cast iron Japanese owl painterly blue and green glazing

painterly blue and green glazing on its exterior

Made of hand-dyed silk thread

This is the finest pine needle basket I've ever seen

This hardcover first edition

Best Ever Very Old Black Cat Doorstop cast iron Japanese owl painterly blue and green glazingOh, this cat.. if this one doesn't grab your heart, I don't know what to say! I would think it has 100 years on it at least and has surely stopped a lot of doors, yielding a to my eye an ideal surface scraped, dinged, and chipped, but still holding on to much of its original paint, most importantly that of the wonderfully expressive eyes and whiskers. I think it all adds up to a pretty perfect embodiment of black cat persona! 8 1 2" tall x 5 3 5"