Curious Old Gold Ball with Hooks All Over wooden advertising sign It is signed with what

It is signed with what looks to be a "K" in the bottom right corner

or just bounce around a bit

the Slade School

with lush cobalt blue hand-painted ginkgo leaf design over white glaze

with a few glaze imperfections original to the piece

Curious Old Gold Ball with Hooks All Over wooden advertising sign It is signed with whatI've had a bit of a string of acquiring things I find quite evocative but know very little about and here's another! I have no idea how or why this gold painted ball with hooks all over came to be, but I love it as an object, and it would make a pretty effective hanger now for rings of keys, or necklaces, or sprigs of mistletoe! There is a loop at top from which it could be hung from a wire or ribbon or string I might suggest from the ceiling so as to