{"id":2064,"date":"2014-10-20T15:19:48","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T15:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=2064"},"modified":"2015-10-26T18:46:25","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T18:46:25","slug":"a-charming-old-carving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/a-charming-old-carving\/","title":{"rendered":"A charming old carving"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2065\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2065\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-691a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2065\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-691a.jpg\" alt=\"still a mystery\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2065\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">still a mystery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-691b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2066\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/aaaMystrySolvd-691b.jpg\" alt=\"aaaMystrySolvd-691b\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" \/><\/a>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 Thank you for this great service. Here is a mask I purchased from Mauna Kea Galleries. I know very little about the mask. It is made of a hard wood and said to collected 1845 and looks to be made from a oak barrel. It looks to have been nailed at one point. The wood looks a little to fresh to be from 1845 to me.<br \/>\nPlease help with this mystery item. It measures 11 3\/4 by 5 1\/2 inches.\u00a0 Ryan, 691<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 This is a very intriguing piece. <!--more-->Did the Gallery tell you why they think it is from 1845? How much did you pay for it? It is not a Polynesian mask or any other kind of ethnographic artifact, however I think it could be something a sailor carved back in the old days. He might have been inspired by a Balinese half-mask he saw in port. But that&#8217;s just an idea. Maybe one of our visitors will recognize it as something much different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 Thank you for this great service. Here is a mask I purchased from Mauna Kea Galleries. I know very little about the mask. It is made of a hard wood and said to collected 1845 and looks to be made from a oak barrel. It looks to have been nailed at one point. The wood looks a little to fresh to be from 1845 to me. Please help with this mystery item. It measures 11 3\/4 by 5 1\/2 inches.\u00a0 Ryan, 691 A:\u00a0 This is a very intriguing piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3307,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions\/3307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}