Ritual Cloth with Prancing Horses (Tampan)
Paminggir (Indonesia, Sumatra, Lampung, Semangka Bay)
19th century
- Medium
- Lower portion: Cotton, silk, linen? gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip wrapped silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning, and brocading wefts with supplementary two-stand weft twining C.I.E.T.A.: Toile lancé, broché Upper portion:…
- Classification
- Textile
- Dimensions
- 86 × 70 cm (33 7/8 × 27 5/8 in.)
- Culture
- Indonesia
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Textiles
- Credit line
- Gift of E. M. Bakwin Indonesian Textile Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
