{"id":2620,"date":"2015-06-21T15:58:36","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T15:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=2620"},"modified":"2015-10-26T16:17:50","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T16:17:50","slug":"classic-javanese-dance-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/classic-javanese-dance-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic Javanese dance mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2621\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2621\" style=\"width: 236px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-795.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2621\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-795-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"Raja Putri\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-795-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-795.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2621\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raja Putri<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 We got these at a garage sale. I presume they&#8217;re Indonesian &#8211; Javanese? I have cheekily submitted the two, because they&#8217;re so much a pair. They are too small to be actual costume masks I think. Unless worn by children. Any thoughts?\u00a0 Jessica, 795<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> Javanese dance masks sometimes look small to American and European collectors because we tend to be larger than the Indonesians. I don&#8217;t think it is for children. This particular mask could be Raja Putri or some other high ranking member of the court in the classic <!--more-->Topeng dance drama. I wanted to show it to our readers because this white-faced female character is so typical of the genre. If you wanted to display only one mask from Java, this would be a good choice. And it would be quite affordable because it was made for sale to the tourist trade. More carefully made masks, especially one used by a professional dancer, would be very expensive.\u00a0<strong> C+<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 We got these at a garage sale. I presume they&#8217;re Indonesian &#8211; Javanese? I have cheekily submitted the two, because they&#8217;re so much a pair. They are too small to be actual costume masks I think. Unless worn by children. Any thoughts?\u00a0 Jessica, 795 A: Javanese dance masks sometimes look small to American and European collectors because we tend to be larger than the Indonesians. I don&#8217;t think it is for children. This particular mask could be Raja Putri or some other high ranking member of the court in the classic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bali-java"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620","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=2620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3276,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620\/revisions\/3276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}