Hold to Light! Very Finely Pinpricked Leaf with Face on Yellow Paper, Earlier 19th Century Japanese export porcelain (I find the matte surface

(I find the matte surface of smoothed cement so beautiful to begin with

7 1/8" x 5 5/8" with flap up

cut by hand (with some pencil mark guides still visible in a couple of spots)

I really love the face on the cat holding her fan

this would be great filled with all sorts of bright and cheerful flowers

Hold to Light! Very Finely Pinpricked Leaf with Face on Yellow Paper, Earlier 19th Century Japanese export porcelain (I find the matte surfaceI love this for feeling like a magical little secret, and that the paper should be sun yellow is just right. Its survival feels pretty miraculous too easy to miss that this is anything more than a plain slip of paper. My efforts to photograph the very finely pinpricked design fell a bit short, but details give a sense. It looks to me that there is a figure nestled into the face of this leaf, with face in 3 4 profile, perhaps an acorn hat on his head!