Giant Sculptural 1897 Signed Wooden Painter's Palette John Hogg publisher sword raised or at rest

sword raised or at rest

they're just lovely

there are blank pages inserted between sections

and with them neatly stacked up inside their folio

Giant Sculptural 1897 Signed Wooden Painter's Palette John Hogg publisher sword raised or at restThis 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