I'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 float in mid-air like the sun!

4 1/4" in diameter and in very good condition, with a nice mellow patina to the old gold paint, and all of the hooks tightly attached.