Antique Mahogony Painter's Palette school work sampler 3 5/8" long x 1

3 5/8" long x 1 1/8" wide x 3/4" tall

of a sprig of a branch with a few furling leaves

the dog itself is color litho printed on cardboard then adhered to both sides of a piece of wood

4 1/4" long  x 3" tall x 1 3/8" wide

with traditional costumes representing all of the states of the Soviet Union at the time

Antique Mahogony Painter's Palette school work sampler 3 5/8" long x 1It's nice to find beautiful old painter's palette's caked in thick layers of oil paint, but quite often ones I come across feel composed rather than product of an actual painter's process. This lovely old one, mahogany I believe, was at some point cleaned scraped down on the used side, leaving it ready for a painter to put to work again, or to use itself as a blank canvas of sorts, or just to hang on the wall exactly as it is. It's in great shape, no