Swahili and Unidentified
Embroidered Mantle
19th-early 20th century
Scroll
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
Artist Artist
Unidentified
