Brass Buckle Marked Paris

What in the world is the figure on the front of this buckle? It looks like a caped cat skeleton to me. It says Paris on the back.

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Greyhound?

 

Kinda looks like a Big Bad Boy Cat.....albeit skinny!!! Big head too, which at first looks sorta like partial shadow........ My image is just from
blowing up the computer screen......

 

Greyhound maybe??

 

I think greyhound may be right.

 

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That makes sense. One of the fashionable dogs of the art deco era.

Debora

 

ummm, could it be a Whippet..?

 

there's a perfume Le Guépard, perhaps ' they made accessoires as well ?
and then there's a line Panthère by Cartier