Tubular Skirt (Sarong)

Textiles

c. 1900

Indonesia, Java, North Coast, Pekalongan

Workshops in Pekalongan produced various types of pictorial subjects, including illustrations of Western stories. The story that is referred to in this sarong, now opened to its full size, has yet to be identified but is full of curious elements. In the center, on the white ground, four male figures wearing breeches pose and gesture in a declamatory way, like actors on a stage. They stand before a building and are surrounded by a rich assortment of angels, animals (including a camel) and birds, butterflies, and plants.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Title: Tubular Skirt (Sarong)
Place: Java (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1890–1910
Medium: Cotton, plain weave; hand-drawn wax resist dyed (batik tulis)
Dimensions: 213.4 × 107 cm (84 × 42 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of E. M. Bakwin Indonesian Textile Collection
Reference Number: 2002.981
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Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Batik Textiles of Java, Apr. 21-Sep. 17, 2017.

E.M. (Pete) Bakwin, Chicago, IL, by 2002 [E.M. Bakwin Collection of Indonesian Textiles inventory EMB-8975, incoming receipt RX23940, dated Jan. 22, 2003, in curatorial object file, Textiles Department]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2002.

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