In 1948, the Duchess of Windsor commissioned Toussaint by then the first woman to be named artistic director of a high jewelry house to create the first of many felines: a brooch featuring a golden cat with black enamel spots crouching over an emerald cabochon.
Silva, a pony-tailed woman with nails painted emerald green, made a small bag of brown and black cloth squares to hold the monkey, which is still too young to walk.