{"id":2906,"date":"2015-09-14T14:45:12","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T14:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/masksfromaroundtheworld.com\/?p=2906"},"modified":"2015-10-19T00:55:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T00:55:07","slug":"asian-mask-for-decor-or-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/asian-mask-for-decor-or-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian mask for decor or memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-833.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-833-180x300.jpg\" alt=\"aaaMystrySolvd-833\" width=\"180\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2907\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-833-180x300.jpg 180w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/aaaMystrySolvd-833.jpg 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><strong><\/a>Q<\/strong>:  This mask was purchased from the estate of the daughter of a mask collector. It has his sticker. I was mot able to get his collection ledger. An African art dealer said it was not African. It is of ebony or a Dalbergia (Central American). I have never found anything that resembles it in my search. It has worn white chin whiskers. It was probably collected in the 1950&#8217;s.  Kenneth, 833<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>  Handsome tourist mask have been made in China and the Himalayas since the 19th century.<!--more--> This certainly has a nice Oriental look to it. Use it as wall decor, but I wouldn&#8217;t think of it as an authentic or particularly collectible mask. <strong> C<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: This mask was purchased from the estate of the daughter of a mask collector. It has his sticker. I was mot able to get his collection ledger. An African art dealer said it was not African. It is of ebony or a Dalbergia (Central American). I have never found anything that resembles it in my search. It has worn white chin whiskers. It was probably collected in the 1950&#8217;s. Kenneth, 833 A: Handsome tourist mask have been made in China and the Himalayas since the 19th century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2906","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\/2906","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=2906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3049,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906\/revisions\/3049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}