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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Bali
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Indonesia
- Date
- circa 1900
- Media category
- Textile
- Materials used
- silk, natural dyes; weft 'ikat'
- Dimensions
- 40.2 x 248.5 cm
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Bequest of Alex Biancardi 2000
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 265.2000
- Copyright
- © Copyright reserved
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About
This striking and beautifully dyed 'ikat' cloth portrays a mythical creature in a greatly abstracted, rainbow-skinned, serpent-like form. The central design of multi-coloured squares arranged somewhat like a weaving pattern is bordered by diamond motifs which appear face-like. Such a design, probably derived from a pattern known as 'gigi barong' (the teeth of the auspicious and mythical 'lion' of Balinese Hindu legend known as the 'barong'), the form of which appears to have been greatly influenced by Chinese dragon imagery.
Asian Art Department, AGNSW, August 2000
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Places
Where the work was made
Bali
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Robyn Maxwell, Textiles of Southeast Asia : tradition, trade and transformation, Canberra, 1990.
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