Two carved wood plaques

Hi all.picked these up and am trying to work out if they are plaques meant for hanging or something else.
Each seem to be carved from a single piece of wood.I think they are carvings of fish but not sure.there are two holes on each of them on the edge, one on one side and another on opposite side.there is also then another point on edge where something else was fixed.maybe for a wall hanging i presume?

They both are 9 inches in diameter by 3 quarters of inch approx thick.

Am wondering does anyone have any knowledge on this type of carving.

Thank you as always

 

They look like they may originally have been part of something like this. Haitian pastry stand?

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1088895267/vintage-haitian-traditional-mahogany

Debora

 

Think youve got it spot on.The placing of the holes now make sense seeing the stand.

Thanks Debora

 

Thanks to Google Images.

Debora

 

Whut? Rare Haitian?

That's an absolutely typical British mahogany folding cake stand, that is. I've had many, and see them often.

 

Not going to quibble re purpose but... Those motifs don't look very British.

Debora

 

They’re a bit book of Kells with those fish. I’ve seen that design somewhere, I wish I could think where. It’s the idea that Haitians made traditional British cake stands that seems bonkers to me! They were a French colony not one of ours. And that looks awfully like a salmon.

 

The internet identifies this as a Celtic fish.

Debora

 

Hah, that’s exactly what I had in mind. We did a lot of this Celtic and pseudo Celtic imagery in the late nineteenth and early twentieth, that whole back to nature arts and crafts thing.

 

Hah, that’s exactly what I had in mind. We did a lot of this Celtic and pseudo Celtic imagery in the late nineteenth and early twentieth, that whole back to nature arts and crafts thing.

 

There are a surprising number of these about on the internet. I'm just not seeing Europe, either in motif or wood. This one too has a tropical theme.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1400789327/vintage-carved-wood-folding-3-tier-pie

Debora

 

How very odd. Have a google on mahogany folding cake stand as a term, you’ll see loads of British ones of identical form. Sans carving though.

Someone must be churning the things out.

 

Either way.am sure mine was part of one ,one time but mine now no longer a stand.

 

Agreed, they were certainly from a stand.