{"id":7730,"date":"2019-02-08T22:19:05","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T22:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=7730"},"modified":"2019-02-08T22:25:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T22:25:57","slug":"exorcising-mask-from-guizhou-prc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/exorcising-mask-from-guizhou-prc\/","title":{"rendered":"Exorcising mask from Guizhou, PRC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1514.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1514-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7731\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1514-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1514-768x1050.jpg 768w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1514-749x1024.jpg 749w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1514-600x820.jpg 600w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1514.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a>Q:  I&#8217;ve long been interested in the nature, age and quality of this Chinese carved wooden face mask with articulating eye openings and movable jaw. It&#8217;s about life size 29 x 17cm. Thanks for your consideration.  Arthur, 1514<\/p>\n<p>A:  Thank <strong>you<\/strong> for waiting so long for my reply. Your mask has a very interesting look to it with the two heads on the side, its eyes and jaw, and lack of paint. Probably authentic in the sense that tourists and exporters would want nothing to do with it. Can&#8217;t find anything similar in my research. Guizhou Province is a guess.<\/p>\n<p>China is the largest and one of the oldest countries in the world. Surely someone out there can tell us a little more about this excellent collector&#8217;s item.  B+ or better.<a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1514b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1514b-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1514b-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1514b-768x1140.jpg 768w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1514b-690x1024.jpg 690w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1514b-600x891.jpg 600w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1514b.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1514c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1514c-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1514c-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1514c-768x1159.jpg 768w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1514c-679x1024.jpg 679w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1514c-600x905.jpg 600w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/aaaMystrySolvd-1514c.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: I&#8217;ve long been interested in the nature, age and quality of this Chinese carved wooden face mask with articulating eye openings and movable jaw. It&#8217;s about life size 29 x 17cm. Thanks for your consideration. Arthur, 1514 A: Thank you for waiting so long for my reply. Your mask has a very interesting look to it with the two heads on the side, its eyes and jaw, and lack of paint. Probably authentic in the sense that tourists and exporters would want nothing to do with it. Can&#8217;t find anything similar in my research. Guizhou Province is a guess. China is the largest and one of the oldest countries in the world. Surely someone out there can tell us a little more about this excellent collector&#8217;s item. B+ or better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7730","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\/7730","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=7730"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7736,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7730\/revisions\/7736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}