Unknown
Shoulder Cloth (Selendang) with Batik Design
2000
Scroll
Unknown
Shoulder Cloth (Selendang) with Batik Design
2000
Physical Qualities
Cotton, 20 x 97 in. (50.8 x 246.4 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Martha Custis Peter, Baltimore
Object Number
2008.39
Long narrow rectangular cloth, probably a shoulder cloth (Selendang) with overall pattern of batiked designs in tan, dark blue, grey, and rust, and a narrow, intricately detailed border. The pattern is of the semen class, which depicts a sacred mountain theme with birds, many plants and small shrine huts. The cloth appears to have been worked by hand, the maker using a tjanting to apply wax to both sides as is common to batik.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2008; Martha Custis Peter, Baltimore, by gift from aunt; Agnes Mott Peter, by purchase, 1930s
Inscribed: None