{"id":7612,"date":"2018-12-16T23:19:54","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T23:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=7612"},"modified":"2018-12-17T23:22:02","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T23:22:02","slug":"village-mask-from-java","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/village-mask-from-java\/","title":{"rendered":"Village mask from Java"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 I just bought this mask on Ebay for $45.\u00a0 I believe that it is from Bali. \u00a0What interested me is the leather tab seen on the inside of the mask, possible to be used by a dancer to hold on to it.\u00a0 I thought you might be interested in the photos.\u00a0 Thanks, \u00a0Deb, 1499<\/p>\n

A:<\/strong>\u00a0 On Feb 16 of this year someone sent in an interesting mask. I answered: “It is from Java, but not old. It is easy to see that this decorative wall-hanging was quickly carved, painted with some nice colors, and then antiqued to make it look old. Antiquing is easy to do with stained varnish and a rag. On this piece it is obvious, but some mask makers are very skilled and can fool you. Mickey bought it at a thrift store for very little money, but some tourists pay a lot more thinking the mask is authentic. I would advise people to always assume they\u2019re purchasing a fake and pay accordingly.”<\/p>\n

Now we have a different character from the Javanese dance dramas that looks even older and more used. The big question is authentic or a carefully antiqued mask made for tourist. Study these pics and see what you think.\u00a0 C\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Q:\u00a0 I just bought this mask on Ebay for $45.\u00a0 I believe that it is from Bali. \u00a0What interested me is the leather tab seen on the inside of the mask, possible to be used by a dancer to hold on to it.\u00a0 I thought you might be interested in the photos.\u00a0 Thanks, \u00a0Deb, 1499 A:\u00a0 On Feb 16 of this year someone sent in an interesting mask. I answered: “It is from Java, but not old. It is easy to see that this decorative wall-hanging was quickly carved, painted with some nice colors, and then antiqued to make it look old. Antiquing is easy to do with stained varnish and a rag. On this piece it is obvious, but some mask makers are very skilled and can fool you. Mickey bought it at a thrift store for very little money, but some tourists pay a lot more thinking the mask is authentic. I would advise people to always assume they\u2019re purchasing a fake and pay accordingly.” Now we have a different character from the Javanese dance dramas that looks even older and more used. The big question is authentic or a carefully antiqued mask made for tourist. Study these pics and see what you think.\u00a0 C  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7612","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\/7612","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=7612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7616,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7612\/revisions\/7616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}