oriental art in four pieces

[sugarcube5419]

hello--

any thoughts or ideas of when or who could have made this--it's very ornate but just on the back of wood--not signed but I don't know if I have the whole picture

[mart]

What it appears you have is not artwork but an applied and laquered piece !! Probably used in an oriental restaurant !! These can be printed on and laquered or printed on paper, glued and then laquered !! Back of the pierce doesn`t show much age !!

[sugarcube5419]

hi mart, always a pleasure.

you are so right about the texture I did not know how to explain it.

[mart]

I blew it up quite a bit and didn`t see anything that looked hand painted !!  Where did you find this ??

[sugarcube5419]

today where I live on craigs list there was an ad for a house that everything was free.  It is close to me so I checked it out and it was for real.  They were gutting the house for remodel and all was out on the front lawn to take.

I have never seen anything like it--an entire household on the front lawn...so we have things to look up--but this was so unusual...thanks mart

[mart]

I hope you loaded it up !!  Or at least the good stuff !!   

[sugarcube5419]

took more than I want to look up--there's a chinese place two blocks from me, might see if the owners would want them.  Can't imagine there would be much demand, just unusual looking

[mart]

I think they are kind of neat !!  Waiting to see the rest of the finds !!  No one ever does stuff like that here !!

[sugarcube5419]

gosh I have tons of pics to look up, I will post later as I already know I am having a time finding their info.  Will get back to you