Ritual Cloth with Prancing Horses (Tampan)

Provenance

E.M. (Pete) Bakwin, Chicago, IL, by Jan. 22, 2002 [E.M. Bakwin Collection of Indonesian Textiles, inventory EMB-9979; incoming receipt RX23940, Jan. 22, 2003; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2002.

Ritual Cloth with Prancing Horses (Tampan)

Paminggir

19th century

Accession Number

180372

Medium

Lower portion: Cotton, silk, linen? gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip wrapped silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning, and brocading wefts with supplementary two-stand weft twining C.I.E.T.A.: Toile lancé, broché Upper portion: Cotton (handspun), silk, gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip wrapped ?, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts C.I.E.T.A.: Toile lancé

Dimensions

86 × 70 cm (33 7/8 × 27 5/8 in.)

Classification

weaving

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of E. M. Bakwin Indonesian Textile Collection