{"id":10416,"date":"2021-07-30T16:58:59","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T16:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=10416"},"modified":"2021-07-30T17:00:56","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T17:00:56","slug":"european-theater-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/european-theater-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"European Theater Mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Q: Any idea where this is from? I inherited it from an uncle who had it in the 1950&#8217;s. He was a frequent visitor to Paris and I suspect he bought it at the Flea Market there. It is 15&#8243; tall to the top of the ears (which look like some kind of leather).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A:\u00a0 This mask looks very similar to masks that I&#8217;ve seen from Austrian Alps.\u00a0 Looking at the back of this mask, it looks like it might have been used in a theater performance or dance celebration.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not certain of this mask&#8217;s origin, if you have any suggestions please leave a comment below.\u00a0 <strong>A<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10419\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/MaskSide-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/MaskSide-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/MaskSide-rotated.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10417\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/MaskBack-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/MaskBack-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/MaskBack-rotated.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: Any idea where this is from? I inherited it from an uncle who had it in the 1950&#8217;s. He was a frequent visitor to Paris and I suspect he bought it at the Flea Market there. It is 15&#8243; tall to the top of the ears (which look like some kind of leather).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10422,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10416\/revisions\/10422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}