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Swahili and Unidentified

Embroidered Mantle

1799-1917

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  • Culture: Swahili
  • Artist Artist: Unidentified

Embroidered Mantle

1799-1917

Physical Qualities Cotton with couching stitch embroidery, 35 × 64 in. (88.9 × 162.6 cm.)
Credit Line Anonymous Gift
Object Number 2023.291
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2023; Private collection, by purchase 2020; Andres Moraga/Pierre Loos by purchase 2018 at Brussels auction; consigned to auction by the nephew of Count Maurice Lippens (1875-1956), who was governor of Belgian Congo between 1919 and 1921

Culture

Swahili

2000–2000

Meet Swahili

Artist Artist

Unidentified

2000-01-01 00:00:00–2000-01-01 00:00:00

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