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Cover or Hanging (Hiasan Dinding)circa 1900

Not on view
Horizontal textile with indigo blue ground densely covered in Arabic script in sand-tan, featuring three large eight-pointed star medallions along the center axis and small diamond cartouches between them, framed by a narrow scripted border
Title
Cover or Hanging (Hiasan Dinding)
Place Made
Indonesia, Java, Cirebon or Sumatra, Jambi
Date Made
circa 1900
Period
20th century
Medium
Hand-drawn wax resist (batik) on machine-woven cotton, synthetic indigo
Dimensions
Overall: 35 1/4 × 89 5/8 in. (89.54 × 227.65 cm)
Credit Line
Inger McCabe Elliott Collection
Accession Number
M.91.184.431
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.