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Collections

Ceremonial Cloth and Heirloom Textile with Row of Female Musicians17th century

On view: Resnick PavilionDeep Cuts: Block Printing Across Cultures
Indian resist-dyed or block-printed textile fragment with four repeating standing figures in pointed headdresses and latticed skirts on an indigo ground, surrounded by dense floral scrollwork in rust red and ivory
Fragment of printed or resist-dyed cotton textile in deep blue and rust-red, depicting a standing figure in ornate patterned garments and headdress amid flowering vines, with a wide border of repeating floral and foliate motifs.
Resist-dyed and block-printed cotton textile in deep indigo blue and rust red, depicting two standing figures in profile facing each other, adorned with jewelry and patterned skirts, surrounded by dense floral and vine scrollwork, with a decorative border along the top edge.

Unknown, Ceremonial Cloth and Heirloom Textile with Row of Female Musicians, 17th century, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Costume Council Fund, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Title
Ceremonial Cloth and Heirloom Textile with Row of Female Musicians
Place Made
India, Gujarat; traded to Sulawesi, eastern Indonesia
Date Made
17th century
Medium
Mordant and wax resist (batik) block printing and painting on plain-weave cotton
Dimensions
40 5/8 × 200 in. (103.19 × 508 cm)
Credit Line
Costume Council Fund
Accession Number
M.2005.10
Classification
Textiles
Collecting Area
Costume and Textiles
Selected Bibliography
  • Markel, Stephen. Mughal and Early Modern Metalware from South Asia at LACMA: An Online Scholarly Catalogue. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2020. https://archive.org/details/mughal-metalware (accessed September 7, 2021).