Giant Sculptural 1897 Signed Wooden Painter's Palette gemini whiskered faces on these pottery

whiskered faces on these pottery cat busts

produced by Charles Goodall & Son of London

and which I purchased together) dating I think to the 19th century

so I think perhaps these were produced during WWI as promotional give aways

Giant Sculptural 1897 Signed Wooden Painter's Palette gemini whiskered faces on these potteryThis 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