Featured Help Identifying Antique Polychrome Wood Carving! (Latin American?)

Hi All, first post! Thanks ahead for taking a look and providing any info or ideas!

Picked this up over the weekend from the estate sale of a former Latin American diplomat and art/antiques collector. All I can tell is that it was potentially used as an furniture or architectural element? Wasn't able to get any other information.

 

whatever it is it had many other parts......

 

Certainly looks South American. Meant to be viewed from both sides, but clearly a front and back. I'd think a ceiling beam decoration from a Spanish Colonial church but outside of my expertise.

Debora

 

Hello I'm new just sighned up to this site I have a old brass engraving plaque I want to post the photo.can you please tell me how I post my photo.kind regards scott

 

Welcome Scott,
Here is info on how to upload pictures, please remember to click on 'full image' when you post:
https://www.antiquers.com/threads/posting-a-thread-and-uploading-pictures.15990/

Posting images from your phone:

iPhone:https://www.antiquers.com/threads/resizing-photos-on-i-phone.35097/

Android phone:https://www.antiquers.com/threads/using-an-android-phone-for-pics-on-antiquers.41709/

 

Pretty sure it’s part of an axle to a Sicilian cart.


https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/d...art-axle-knights-figural-faces/id-f_15433282/

 

https://www.google.com/search?q=sicilian+cart+axle

 

How do u find such things ??????
This site is AMAZING !!!!

& You Sir.........ROCK !!!!!!!

 

I was given one of those axles back in the 1990s when helping with an Italian family estate liquidation in Denver. The op’s part looked familiar.

 

Ahhhhhhhhhh.......service to others & experience !!!! Got It !!!

 

Does that size work for an axle part?

Debora

 

INCREDIBLE. @anundverkaufen, thanks so much! Was honestly expecting a bit of a dead end on this. Really appreciating the discovery of what in the world this was.

 

The first "1stdibs" link says the dimensions of that entire axle are
Dimensions
Height: 16 in. (40.64 cm)Width: 41 in. (104.14 cm)Depth: 14 in. (35.56 cm)

It appears the item that @jfo posted is about 17 inches, and would correspond with the depth measurement, based on the way that the complete one is fitted together. So it looks like it would fit.

 

Thank you.

Debora

 

Thank you! You help so many people here.

 

An article on the Sicilian cart:
https://livinginsicily.eu/the-sicilian-cart-carretto-siciliano/

You can't see the axle very well here, but suffice it to say, the entire cart is decorated:



I have one of those pompoms that hang from the sides of the horse's head. The colours and small mirrors are meant to ward off evil. The bright colours on the cart could serve the same purpose. The angels could be there to prevent accidents?