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Thai Papercut Art - Who Are They?
« on: January 16, 2020, 08:50:51 am »
This is not antique, but I picked up this beautiful Thai papercut art piece in a thrift store for $15. Can anyone identify the two deities(?) in the design? I would really like to know who they are and what their story is. I know nothing about Thai art or mythology. The art piece is big, about 20" tall and the paper image is sandwiched between two sheets of glass, mounted over a shadowbox frame. Click the image to see the details.
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Re: Thai Papercut Art - Who Are They?
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2020, 04:14:59 pm »
I have no idea who it is supposed to be !!  But it is nice !!

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Re: Thai Papercut Art - Who Are They?
« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2020, 05:34:11 pm »
I am limited in what I know about Thai costumes, but the headdress have several names such as mongkut.  But these headdress are not limited to Thailand - the Burmese and Laotians have this as historical headdress as well.  I do know that the straight across the forehead and the curved across the forehead are significant.  (straight is more often represented for male and curved for female.)
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Re: Thai Papercut Art - Who Are They?
« Reply #3 on: January 16, 2020, 06:49:41 pm »
Is the dark face of the male (left) figure significant? I saw some demons dark like that. I'm only guessing Thai as the origin, I had not thought about Burma and Laos! As you can see, I'm stumbling about in the dark on this one, but yeah, I love it!
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Re: Thai Papercut Art - Who Are They?
« Reply #4 on: March 02, 2020, 08:55:16 am »
I found out what these are! They are from Thailand and they shadow puppets. They are made of painted buffalo hide, not paper. I am not sure what legend they may depict, but at least I know what they are now.
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Re: Thai Papercut Art - Who Are They?
« Reply #5 on: March 02, 2020, 09:12:48 am »
Well,, I would not have thought a hide of any sort !!  Glad you found out where they are from and what they are made of at least !!

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Re: Thai Papercut Art - Who Are They?
« Reply #6 on: March 02, 2020, 03:16:34 pm »
That's interesting - hide.  Wouldn't have thought of that one.
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