Giant Sculptural 1897 Signed Wooden Painter's Palette cubist watercolor Watercolor on watercolor type card

Watercolor on watercolor type card

This very special thing is another at the top of my list for all time favorite finds

and 5 3/4" inches from spot to handle

" made more as decorative novelties

The box opens and closes easily and is in good overall condition

Giant Sculptural 1897 Signed Wooden Painter's Palette cubist watercolor Watercolor on watercolor type cardThis 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