skirt(unsewn);
sarong(unsewn)
- Museum number
- As1934,0307.11
- Description
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A batik tube skirt, a 'sarung', unsewn, on fine tabby cotton cloth. 'Kepala' has design of a pair of storks, one standing in a lily pond with one leg raised, the other in the water and looking upwards at the first stork. A humming bird flies above, a frog on a rock below. Sides of 'kepala' and lower edge of cloth bordered by ? from which hang flowers with long stamens and scrolling flowers. 'Kepala' and lower border are on a deep red ground. 'Badan' is on clear cream ground with repeating vertical columns with two large birds and several smaller, perhaps suggesting parents and young, in pink, green, pale mauve, and blue. Above the lower border are leaf blades in the same colours as the bird motifs, which are set within a design of stems from which flowers, leaves and seeds emerge, all suggestive of marriage and fecundity. The cloth is glazed on the outer face. Unused. Signed at top of 'kepala' 'Mevr B. Fisfer Pek'. [Text written by Dr Fiona Kerlogue, Horniman Museum.]
- Production date
- 1880-1913
- Dimensions
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Length: 224 centimetres
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Width: 109 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Kepala: this is an area of a sarung, usually one-third of its width, containing the triangular ‘tumpal' design. It may be at one or both ends of the cloth, or in the middle. The motifs differ in colour and/or pattern from the badan.
Badan: this is the main field of the cloth.
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Mrs Fisfer [sic] [d. 1908?] mentioned in Veldhuisen, Harmen C, 1993: Batik Belanda, 1840 - 1940: Dutch Influence in Batik from Java History and Sources, Jakarta, Gaya Favorit.
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See As1934,0307. 26 for another sarung worked by Mevr B Fisfer Pek.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1934
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- As1934,0307.11