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Altar Cloth (Tok Wi)circa 1910-circa 1920

Not on view
Embroidered textile panel in cream on deep red, with a central dragon and four corner animals in the lower register, and a figural procession with a palanquin in the upper register, framed by key-fret borders

Unknown, Altar Cloth (Tok Wi), circa 1910-circa 1920, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Inger McCabe Elliott Collection, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Title
Altar Cloth (Tok Wi)
Place Made
Indonesia, Java, Cirebon
Date Made
circa 1910-circa 1920
Medium
Hand-drawn wax resist (batik) on machine-woven cotton, synthetic dyes
Dimensions
40 1/2 x 42 3/4 in. (103 x 108.6 cm)
Credit Line
Inger McCabe Elliott Collection
Accession Number
M.91.184.409
Classification
Textiles
Collecting Area
Costume and Textiles
Selected Bibliography
  • Heringa, Rens and Veldhuisen, Harmen. Fabric of Enchantment: Batik from the North Coast of Java. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Weatherhill, Inc., 1996.