{"id":6276,"date":"2018-03-10T16:46:28","date_gmt":"2018-03-10T16:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=6276"},"modified":"2018-05-06T14:58:50","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T14:58:50","slug":"old-thai-khon-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/old-thai-khon-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Old khon mask"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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\"\"<\/a>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 I’ve just found this mask. It looks like a khon mask but from where? Burma or India? Have you some idea about this?\u00a0 Eric, 1314<\/p>\n

A:\u00a0<\/strong> I’ve never seen a kohn mask from either Burma or India, so I assume it is an old example from Thailand. Sometimes they are danced, but they are also displayed in holy places. Life sized<\/span>, it is m<\/span>ade from layers of papier-mache and plaster.\u00a0 Gold leaf and colored glass and jewels are applied along with some paint. <\/span>Because of its age I think you should do more research. This might be of interest to serious collectors.\u00a0 A<\/strong>\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Q:\u00a0 I’ve just found this mask. It looks like a khon mask but from where? Burma or India? Have you some idea about this?\u00a0 Eric, 1314 A:\u00a0 I’ve never seen a kohn mask from either Burma or India, so I assume it is an old example from Thailand. Sometimes they are danced, but they are also displayed in holy places. Life sized, it is made from layers of papier-mache and plaster.\u00a0 Gold leaf and colored glass and jewels are applied along with some paint. Because of its age I think you should do more research. This might be of interest to serious collectors.\u00a0 A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6276","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\/6276","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=6276"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6287,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6276\/revisions\/6287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}