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  • Sarong (Indonesia), 1900–1950

    Sarong with horizontal repeat of large-scale curving floral spray (“buketan” motif) surrounded by birds and butterflies in black, red, and blue on undyed ground. Narrow black side borders with blue…

  • Sarong (Indonesia), 1900–1957

    A panel of glazed cotton, resist-printed, probably by a batik method known as cap (tjap) printing (wax resist applied by means of blocks inlaid with copper strips). Two-thirds of the…

  • Sarong (Indonesia), 1900–1957

    A panel of glazed cotton, resist-printed, probably by a batik method known as cap (tjap) printing (wax resist applied by means of blocks inlaid with copper strips). Design is dark…

  • Sarong (Indonesia), 1900–1957

    A panel of glazed cotton, resist-printed, probably by a batik method known as cap (tjap) printing (wax resist applied by means of blocks inlaid with copper strips). Design is dark…

  • Sarong (Indonesia), 1900–1960

    Long, coarse cotton panel, probably a sarong, in rust, blue, and dark brown on cream ground. Two foliage borders followed by the head or ‘kepala’ of the piece with two…

  • Sarong (Indonesia), 19th–20th century

    Sarong, cap (tjap) printed (using block to apply wax) and filled with canting (tjanting) (hand tool used to apply wax), in two shades of rust red and light blue. Printed…

  • Sarong, mid- 18th–19th century

    Complete sarong with two heavily brocaded ends showing the tumpal motif, triangles, and a small allover pattern of stars and rosettes. Central section of weft ikat predominantly in shades of…

  • Sarong (Indonesia), late 19th–early 20th century

    Batik sarong with a center field and deep borders at each end, in red, blue and cream. The field shows the “ceplokkan” motif (stylized, star-like flowers symmetrically arranged). The border…

  • Sarong (Indonesia), 19th century

    Red and blue batik sarong. Shows “ceplokkan” pattern: flowers or blossoms, symmetrically distributed over surface, stylized, star-like,and contained within a geometric shape. Borders show batiked on fringe.

  • Sarong, Sea Weed, 19th century

    Batik sarong in brown, pink, and dark blue. Dark blue seaweed pattern placed freely over the pink-brown ground in the body or ‘badan’ of the piece. The head or ‘kepala’…

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