Featured Carved wood box?

Hello and thank you for taking the time to review my post. I think this box is Swiss, I was wondering if someone could confirm that. Also any thought on the mark carved into the lid bottom also the first word on the paper label? The box is 7 inches wide.
Regards Joe.

 

Looks Italian. Can't quite make out the first word on the label, but "Rilievo" in Italian means "relief". (As in "raised" for the carving I would think.)

 

Treenware (wooden ware)

Possibly Germany Black Forest

I wondered if he was yodeling, but the rilievo {that I can read) suggests something else

 

Haha, @Lucille.b!

 

Rilievo (whatever it means in this case) is italian, you're right

 

Perhaps means "high relief". Could be flat wrong on this, lol.

The carving reminds me of the Italian wooden wares like Anri, etc although I don't know if they did boxes, too.

 

coniglie ?

the half-balcony on the chalet could be Tyrolean

 

relief bunnies
"coniglie rilievo" in English

!

 

Who knows where your day's ever going to go?

 

It is a minor point, but the container itself appears to be lathe-turned, and the relief carving made as a separate piece and then attached to the top.

 

Given that Italian is one of the Swiss languages, it could be from there.

 

but it hasn't the quality.

 

It's confusing!!! To me, the child looks Asian, the mountains and chalet look Swiss, and you say the writing looks Italian!! Plus, I don't know what the mark on the bottom indicates!!!???

 

looks like a swiss chalet...

 

always nice to learn something about Switzerland...
https://www.suedtirol.de/tipps/ferienhaus-chalet.html
the mountains, the chalet and the rest look generic. furthermore the language could eventually be Ladin.
if this was by a Swiss carver - let's say Brienz - he and his whole family would be neutered asap.

 

Actually South Tirol (province in northern Italy) also has this type of houses. You can see them throughout the whole Alp area.
Also his hat looks very much traditional for Südtirol:


Bavarian and Austrian hats have different shape and mostly are decorated with feathers. Swiss traditional hats are usually flat.

 

https://www.google.ch/search?biw=11...93.700.9......0....1..gws-wiz-img.QMClZMqiVfE

https://www.kijiji.it/annunci/antiq...a-legno-val-gardena-contadino-bauer/130177763

 

Yes, exactly!
Btw. I forgot to mention, that this piece was most definitely made after WWI, since before that time people didn't speak Italian in South Tirol.

 

here is a list.
è italiana lei ?
http://www.wikiwand.com/de/Südtirol#/Sprachen

 

Thanks for all the input, tried to get a better image of the mark on lid bottom, reflection of finish made it difficult, best effort below, maybe A R? Regards Joe.