Giant Sculptural 1897 Signed Wooden Painter's Palette John Hogg publisher topped with a thick coat

topped with a thick coat of varnish or shellac

sword raised or at rest

they're just lovely

I believe it dates to the first half of the 20th century

Giant Sculptural 1897 Signed Wooden Painter's Palette John Hogg publisher topped with a thick coatThis late 19th century oversized wooden painter's palette is not in perfect shape, but it remains to my eye a very beautiful thing, and I thought that if the glued repairs (two long splits in the wood of the flat section) seem bothersome, one could treat it as a sort of easel, pinning up a drawing, say, on the lower half and hanging the whole thing on the wall from the hole. Or one could, of course, use it as a palette once again, or paint a