{"id":3848,"date":"2016-02-08T15:01:26","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T15:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=3848"},"modified":"2016-02-08T15:06:31","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T15:06:31","slug":"another-great-mexican-decorative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/another-great-mexican-decorative\/","title":{"rendered":"Another great Mexican decorative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-908.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3849\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3849\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-908-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"aaaMystrySolvd-908\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-908-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-908-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-908-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-908-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 I do love old stuff. When we bought our historic house 10 years ago we bought it with items in house still. I have found a few interesting items also.\u00a0 Here are a couple pics of a mask we found. its about 35 inches x 25 and is carved out of one piece of bottom of a tree. It looks like maybe rubber tree wood painted in Indian colors. Well anything you can tell me is great\u00a0 John, 908<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 Mexican decoratives, also called tourist masks, are avoided by most collectors. None the less, I often find them\u00a0 interesting and even beautiful, which is certainly true of yours.\u00a0 This large, cylindrical shaped wood carving is painted in a rich combination of colors. Think of how great it would look on the wall. In my new book, <em>Masks of the World<\/em>, items 731-764 are all Mexican decorative masks! Each is very creative and different from the others. Look at blog #860 to see how different they can be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 I do love old stuff. When we bought our historic house 10 years ago we bought it with items in house still. I have found a few interesting items also.\u00a0 Here are a couple pics of a mask we found. its about 35 inches x 25 and is carved out of one piece of bottom of a tree. It looks like maybe rubber tree wood painted in Indian colors. Well anything you can tell me is great\u00a0 John, 908 A:\u00a0 Mexican decoratives, also called tourist masks, are avoided by most collectors. None the less, I often find them\u00a0 interesting and even beautiful, which is certainly true of yours.\u00a0 This large, cylindrical shaped wood carving is painted in a rich combination of colors. Think of how great it would look on the wall. In my new book, Masks of the World, items 731-764 are all Mexican decorative masks! Each is very creative and different from the others. Look at blog #860 to see how different they can be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mexico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3848","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=3848"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3852,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3848\/revisions\/3852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}