Wood Frieze?

Any advice as to what this is and when it was? Thank you in advance.

 

Contemporary from the "Made in" sticker.

Debora

 

Not necessarily contemporary - Made In stickers started around 1935 (avery type labels did at least). Circular saw marks present. Is there any worming present?

 

Thanks for the feedback. The worm damage as shown in 1 pic above, otherwise doesn't seem recent or active.

 

Maybe Mexican? To go with one of those religious paintings?

 

I was referring to the sticker itself, its plainness, its rectangular shape, the serif type face that mimics a typewriter... To my eye all point to contemporary. (Of course, I could be wrong.)

Debora

 

It looks like a carving from a Sicilian cart. It would have been painted when first made, but I have seen antique ones with all the paint gone.
Every part of a Sicilian cart is carved, so the carvings come in all shapes and sizes.
This is one part, to give you an idea:
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/antique-sicilian-painted-ornate-494250116

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_cart

Complete cart:


http://www.iitaly.org/magazine/focus/art-culture/article/sicilian-carts-journey-la

 

Ok-- interesting lead. Thank you. I seem to remember something from a similar cart here once before...?

 

I was thinking the same. I could have been the one to identify it. My parents had one of those friezes.

 

Here's the other thread:

https://www.antiquers.com/threads/help-identifying-antique-polychrome-wood-carving-latin-american.59435/#post-3719250

What I have doesn't seem to ever have been painted. Not sure if that makes a difference.

 

The 2 figures might be Sirens.

 

Someone could have done a 'great' job stripping the remainders off. After all, it looks so sloppy.

Whatever it is, it was once part of something bigger, and likely from a coastal or island region somewhere.

 

Somewhere the like their women not skinny!