Breast or Shoulder Cloths (anteng or cerik)

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Title

Breast or Shoulder Cloths (anteng or cerik)

Place

Bali (Object made in)

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Made 1901–2000

Medium

a: Silk, cotton, gold-leaf-over-silver-on-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton and silver-on-paper-strip-wrapped cotton, weft banded plain weave with supplementary patterning and brocading wefts b: Silk and gold-leaf-over-silver-on-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton, bands of weft resist dyed (ikat) plain weave and of plain weave with supplementary patterning and brocading wefts, main warp plied and knotted fringe d: Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton, plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts

Dimensions

a: 312.3 × 34.7 cm (123 × 13 5/8 in.); b: 280 × 37.5 cm (110 1/4 × 14 3/4 in.); d: 286.7 × 48.3 cm (112 7/8 × 19 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of E. M. Bakwin Indonesian Textile Collection

Reference Number

2002.958a-e

Extended information about this artwork

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