{
 "schema": 1,
 "id": "locket",
 "level": "kind",
 "parent": null,
 "names": {
  "th": "ล็อกเก็ต",
  "roman": "locket",
  "en": "photograph locket",
  "aliases": {
   "th": [
    "ล็อกเกต",
    "ล็อคเก็ต",
    "ล็อกเก็ตรูปถ่าย",
    "รูปถ่ายติดกระจก"
   ],
   "roman": [
    "locket",
    "lockget",
    "rup thai tit krachok"
   ],
   "en": [
    "monk photo locket",
    "glass-fronted photo amulet"
   ]
  }
 },
 "region": [
  "th"
 ],
 "axes": {
  "class": "yantra_wattu",
  "functions": [
   "metta_maha_niyom",
   "khum_khrong"
  ],
  "materials": [
   "kesa",
   "chiwon",
   "nuea_phong",
   "phong_phuttakhun"
  ],
  "figures": [
   "monk"
  ]
 },
 "form": {
  "type": "locket",
  "shape_th": "รูปถ่ายพระเกจิใต้กระจกหรือเรซินใส ทรงรี สี่เหลี่ยม หรือข้าวหลามตัด หลังอุดผง เกศา จีวร หรือตะกรุด",
  "shape_en": "A monk's photograph sealed under glass or clear resin — oval, rectangular or diamond — with powder, hair, robe cloth or a takrut packed behind it",
  "size_mm": null,
  "wearable_th": "ห้อยคอ มักเลี่ยมกรอบ",
  "wearable_en": "Worn at the neck, usually framed",
  "obverse_th": "รูปถ่ายหรือภาพพิมพ์สีของพระเกจิ",
  "obverse_en": "The photograph or colour print of the monk",
  "reverse_th": "มวลสารอุดหลัง ผง เกศา จีวร ตะกรุด บางชิ้นตอกโค้ด",
  "reverse_en": "The packed reverse: powder, hair, robe cloth, a takrut, sometimes a stamped code",
  "notes_en": "Sizes run from small ovals to the 'jumbo' pieces the trade names as such; no single typical size."
 },
 "iconography": [
  {
   "th": "รูปถ่ายพระเกจิ",
   "en": "a photograph of a named monk"
  },
  {
   "th": "มวลสารอุดหลัง — ผง เกศา จีวร",
   "en": "the reverse packing: powder, hair, robe"
  },
  {
   "th": "ฉากหลังทองหรือขาว (ฉากทอง ฉากขาว)",
   "en": "gold or plain background behind the portrait — trade terms for the two finishes"
  }
 ],
 "origin": {
  "wat_slug": null,
  "wat_th": "",
  "wat_en": "",
  "maker_th": "วัดและสำนักทั่วประเทศ",
  "maker_en": "Temples nationwide",
  "era_th": "หลังการถ่ายรูปแพร่หลาย ตัวอย่างเสรีเก่าสุดที่พบคือรูปถ่ายติดกระจก พ.ศ. ๒๔๗๕",
  "era_en": "Follows the spread of photography; the oldest free Commons example is a photo-under-glass of Phra Phimontham (Nak), Wat Arun, dated BE 2475",
  "place_th": "ทั่วประเทศ",
  "place_en": "Nationwide",
  "first_attested": ""
 },
 "diagnostics": [
  {
   "th": "ด้านหน้าเป็นรูปถ่าย ไม่ใช่รูปปั๊มหรือหล่อ",
   "en": "The front is a photograph, not struck or cast relief",
   "source": "s:holding-key",
   "tier": "catalogue"
  },
  {
   "th": "ด้านหลังอุดมวลสาร — ดูผง เส้นเกศา เศษจีวร ตะกรุด",
   "en": "The reverse is a sealed packing; look for powder, hair, robe threads, a takrut",
   "source": "s:holding-key",
   "tier": "catalogue"
  },
  {
   "th": "กระจกหรือเรซินนูน ขอบกรอบโลหะ",
   "en": "Glass or a domed resin front in a metal bezel",
   "source": "s:tradition",
   "tier": "tradition"
  },
  {
   "th": "ชั้นเรียกว่าวัตถุมงคล ไม่ใช่พระเครื่อง — พลังอยู่ที่มวลสารและพิธี ไม่มีผู้อยู่",
   "en": "The vault files it under blessed objects, not Buddha-amulets: power is in the relic packing and the rite, and nobody is home",
   "source": "s:vault-classes",
   "tier": "catalogue"
  }
 ],
 "confusable_with": [
  {
   "id": "rian-kechi",
   "tell_th": "เหรียญเป็นโลหะปั๊มทั้งชิ้น · ล็อกเก็ตเป็นรูปถ่ายใต้กระจก",
   "tell_en": "A medallion is solid struck metal; a locket is a photograph under glass with material behind it"
  },
  {
   "id": "takrut",
   "tell_th": "ตะกรุดเป็นหลอดม้วน อาจฝังอยู่หลังล็อกเก็ต",
   "tell_en": "A takrut is a rolled tube and may be one of the things packed inside a locket's back; the locket is the housing, the takrut the charge"
  },
  {
   "id": "phra-somdet",
   "tell_th": "พระสมเด็จเป็นผงอัดพิมพ์ทั้งองค์ · ล็อกเก็ตมีผงอยู่หลังรูปเท่านั้น",
   "tell_en": "A somdej is pressed powder through and through; a locket only has powder as packing behind a picture"
  }
 ],
 "market": {
  "search": [
   "ล็อกเก"
  ],
  "excludes": [],
  "tier": "retail"
 },
 "media": {
  "commons_categories": [],
  "commons_files": [
   "File:Zz005.jpg",
   "File:Zz019.jpg"
  ],
  "wanted_en": "The two free files are a BE 2475 diamond-shaped photo-under-glass of Phra Phimontham (Nak), Wat Arun. Needed: a modern resin locket front and its packed reverse"
 },
 "images": [
  {
   "file": "locket/locket-zz005-23cb6c.jpg",
   "source": "commons",
   "title": "File:Zz005.jpg",
   "url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/Zz005.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=original",
   "page_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=90798370",
   "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
   "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0",
   "author": "Witwatarun",
   "credit": "Own work",
   "view": "other",
   "alt_th": "ล็อกเก็ต",
   "alt_en": "photograph locket — รูปถ่ายติดกระจกข้าวหลามตัด พระพิมลธรรม(นาค) วัดอรุณราชวราราม ปี พ.ศ.2475",
   "sha256": "0f7380f3734b9e8dcdd3bc31d124d0cd8891ab76b768c00ba835dd38410c5024",
   "width": 1120,
   "height": 808,
   "primary": true
  },
  {
   "file": "locket/locket-zz019-29435a.jpg",
   "source": "commons",
   "title": "File:Zz019.jpg",
   "url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/Zz019.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=original",
   "page_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=90905313",
   "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
   "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0",
   "author": "Witwatarun",
   "credit": "Own work",
   "view": "other",
   "alt_th": "ล็อกเก็ต",
   "alt_en": "photograph locket — รูปถ่ายติดกระจกข้าวหลามตัด พระพิมลธรรม(นาค) วัดอรุณราชวราราม ปี พ.ศ.2475",
   "sha256": "36684723491f017bfbd66a3d1baf13c81c193c1c2795c5a1e93d7ab8a3369bd9",
   "width": 1200,
   "height": 836
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 ],
 "text": {
  "what_th": "รูปถ่ายพระเกจิผนึกใต้กระจกหรือเรซิน หลังอุดผง เกศา หรือจีวร — คือที่บรรจุพระธาตุแบบพกพาในรูปของเครื่องประดับ พลังอยู่ที่มวลสารและพิธี ไม่มีผู้อยู่",
  "what_en": "A monk's photograph sealed under glass or resin, often with powder, hair, or robe-cloth packed behind the image — a portable reliquary in costume jewellery's clothes.",
  "story_th": "แบบเก่าคือรูปถ่ายติดกระจก เช่นของพระพิมลธรรม (นาค) วัดอรุณ ปี ๒๔๗๕ แบบใหม่พิมพ์สีเคลือบเรซิน หลังอุดผงพุทธคุณ เกศา จีวร หรือตะกรุด และมักตอกโค้ด วงการเรียกฉากทอง ฉากขาว และขนาดจัมโบ้",
  "story_en": "The older form is a photograph mounted under glass; the free Commons example is a diamond-shaped one of Phra Phimontham (Nak) of Wat Arun dated BE 2475. The modern form is a colour print under clear resin with the reverse packed with sacred powder, hair, robe cloth or a takrut and usually stamped with a code. The trade names the finishes by background — gold or plain — and the large sizes as jumbo.",
  "keeping_th": "ไม่มีผู้อยู่ ไม่ต้องเลี้ยง",
  "keeping_en": "Nobody home, nothing owed; a blessed object. What is behind the picture is a relic of the monk, not a resident."
 },
 "sources": [
  "s:holding-key",
  "s:vault-classes",
  "s:commons-amulets-th",
  "s:tradition"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "tradition",
   "source": "s:tradition"
  },
  "fields": {
   "axes": {
    "tier": "catalogue",
    "source": "s:vault-classes"
   },
   "text.what_en": {
    "tier": "catalogue",
    "source": "s:holding-key"
   },
   "text.keeping_en": {
    "tier": "catalogue",
    "source": "s:vault-classes"
   },
   "market": {
    "tier": "catalogue",
    "source": "s:holding-key"
   },
   "origin.era_en": {
    "tier": "cited",
    "source": "s:commons-amulets-th",
    "note": "file description of Zz005.jpg / Zz019.jpg"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "medium",
 "needs_verification": true,
 "updated": "2026-09-02",
 "class_facts": {
  "key": "yantra_wattu",
  "term": "วัตถุมงคล (ยันต์)",
  "roman": "wattu mongkhon",
  "en_gloss": "blessed/inscribed object",
  "resident": "none",
  "upkeep": "none",
  "provenance_sensitivity": "low",
  "definition": "Takrut, yantra cloth, blessed medallions — power in the inscription and the rite. Impersonal.",
  "confidence": "high"
 },
 "function_terms": [
  {
   "key": "metta_maha_niyom",
   "term": "เมตตามหานิยม",
   "roman": "metta maha niyom",
   "en": "loving-kindness and wide popularity",
   "definition": "Broad social favour — people are well-disposed, superiors are lenient, customers return. Built on เมตตา, the Buddhist virtue, and respectable to carry and to sell."
  },
  {
   "key": "khum_khrong",
   "term": "คุ้มครอง",
   "roman": "khum khrong",
   "en": "general protection, watching over",
   "definition": "Unspecified guardianship. **A holding pen, not a category** — when a source says only คุ้มครอง it usually has not said which of the specific functions above it means. Treat its presence as a gap to close, not an answer."
  }
 ],
 "material_terms": [
  {
   "key": "kesa",
   "term": "เกศา",
   "roman": "kesa",
   "en": "hair of the master",
   "definition": "Hair of a named monk, incorporated into a paste or sealed into the piece. The material is unremarkable; the attribution is everything. Unverifiable from the object, which makes the temple's own issue record the only thing that could ever support it — exactly the record a register should hold."
  },
  {
   "key": "chiwon",
   "term": "จีวร",
   "roman": "chiwon",
   "en": "robe cloth",
   "definition": "A fragment of a monk's robe, set into or behind the piece. As with เกศา, the claim rests entirely on the issue record."
  },
  {
   "key": "nuea_phong",
   "term": "เนื้อผง",
   "roman": "nuea phong",
   "en": "sacred-powder paste",
   "definition": "Consecrated powder bound with a binder (traditionally banana sap, lime, oil) and pressed. The material of the พระสมเด็จ and of most temple issues since. Because the recipe is reproducible and the mould is copyable, this is the most heavily reproduced material in the trade — which is precisely why the reference literature on it is the deepest."
  },
  {
   "key": "phong_phuttakhun",
   "term": "ผงพุทธคุณ",
   "roman": "phong phuttakhun",
   "en": "powder of the Buddha's qualities",
   "definition": "Powder produced by writing and erasing sacred formulae on a slate, the chalk dust collected and re-written many times. The named powders — ปถมัง, อิทธิเจ, ตรีนิสิงเห, มหาราช, พุทธคุณ — are distinguished by which formula was written. A listing that says only \"ผงพุทธคุณ\" is naming a family, not a recipe."
  }
 ],
 "region_terms": [
  {
   "key": "th",
   "th": "ทั่วประเทศไทย",
   "en": "Thailand, not regionally specific"
  }
 ],
 "market_stats": {
  "listings": 138,
  "priced": 138,
  "median_thb": 149.0,
  "typical_thb": [
   59.0,
   399.0
  ],
  "source": "s:catalog-db",
  "tier": "catalogue",
  "note": "title matches only; delete-then-test excludes applied"
 },
 "primary_image": {
  "file": "locket/locket-zz005-23cb6c.jpg",
  "source": "commons",
  "title": "File:Zz005.jpg",
  "url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/Zz005.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=original",
  "page_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=90798370",
  "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0",
  "author": "Witwatarun",
  "credit": "Own work",
  "view": "other",
  "alt_th": "ล็อกเก็ต",
  "alt_en": "photograph locket — รูปถ่ายติดกระจกข้าวหลามตัด พระพิมลธรรม(นาค) วัดอรุณราชวราราม ปี พ.ศ.2475",
  "sha256": "0f7380f3734b9e8dcdd3bc31d124d0cd8891ab76b768c00ba835dd38410c5024",
  "width": 1120,
  "height": 808,
  "primary": true
 },
 "tier_labels": {
  "en": {
   "catalogue": "Catalogue — checkable against the corpus (catalog.db, a transcribed treatise)",
   "cited": "Cited — a named external source, linked",
   "tradition": "Tradition — general knowledge of the wider tradition, hedged",
   "inference": "Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above",
   "field": "Field — someone stood there"
  },
  "th": {
   "catalogue": "จากคลัง",
   "cited": "อ้างอิงแหล่ง",
   "tradition": "ตามประเพณี",
   "inference": "อนุมาน",
   "field": "พบเห็นเอง"
  }
 }
}