Featured Chinese Wooden carved panel (sold at Marshall Fields)

I think I know what this is... a Chinese carved panel. Recent thrift purchase, what I found interesting was the "Marshall Fields" label. This is maybe the 3rd antique I've found that had a Marshall Field's label. I grew up outside of Chicago and my parent's shopped at Marshall Fields. It intrigues me that this department store had an "antique section". Anyone ever shopped it? Wondered if @verybrad might have.

I remember selling one of these panels a decade ago for pretty good money, seems like the market has softened a lot. Also I believe there might be a section missing on mine. I'll list it and see what happens, but I think I'd be lucky to get $20 unless the Marshall Fields label adds something.

 

Back just after WWII and maybe just before, a lot of department stores had a section for Antiques. Every so often a piece turns up with a department store label.

 

I was in the Marshall Fields antiques dept. once when I was a kid in the 60s. I remember it as being pricey. I know at some point, long before they were bought out, that the department was discontinued. I don't know when that was.

The Marshall Fields label does sometimes add a little value. They were known for their level of taste. The other thing we see is Marshall Fields branded things that were sold new in the store but are now antiques. Among these are original artworks and luxury decor. In particular, their versions of Tiffany, Heintz, and Carence Crafters metalwork is sought after. You also see Fields branded silver, though often with double marks with Fields as the retailer.

 

Panels like these were often part of much, much, MUCH larger pieces of furniture.

Beds, chairs, dividers, screens, etc. They would've been jemmied off and sold piecemeal over the years, when the larger piece of furniture was beyond saving.

 

Charming find. These panels often came from buildings that were being restored. Old panels replaced by freshly carved and painted ones. Yours was probably replaced because of the damage lower right.

I would say yours is antique, at least it is now.
I have a few small panels from a Peranakan/Straits Chinese house on Java that was restored in the 1930s, and know it was common practice in Indonesia.

 

zat a pineapple upper right ???

 

A sunflower with frilly petals?