The bell with the figure of a cat displays typical features of a new tendency (known in English as Art Nouveau) in decorative art that made its appearance at the end of the nineteenth century and reached its height in the first decade of the twentieth. Those features are an elongated shape with stretched proportions and the motif of a spray of wild rose shedding its blossom. The figure of a cat, hardly to be found in the decorative art of the preceding period, is also typical of the new tendency.