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060 Bali Group, Bali
Kamben geringsing, ritual shawl  
| | Locale: | Tenganan Pegeringsingan, Bali Aga people. | | Period: | 19th c. | | Yarn: | Cotton, hand-spun, medium | | Technique: | Double ikat | | Panels: | 1 | | Size: | 54.5 x 200 cm (1' 9" x 6' 6") LW: 3.67 | | Weight: | 132 g (4.7 oz), 121 g/m2 (0.40 oz/ft2) | | Design: | Geringsing wayang kebo. Field divided into semicircles by four-pointed stars. In the semicircles are two groups of three people, probably representing an audience between a priest, his wife and a devotee. The borders consist of three rows of star flowers. Black on ecru. Cloth has a warm undertone, probably due to a bath of ayar kuning. | | Comment: | Excellent example of the type. A few tiny holes, otherwise in uncommonly good condition for its age. | | Background: | Chapters on Bali Group and Bali. | | Exhibited: | Museu do Oriente, Lisbon, 2014/15.
Hong Kong University Museum and Art Gallery, 2017. | | Published: | Woven Languages, 2014.
Ikat Textiles of the Indonesian Archipelago, 2018. | | Compare: | 058 059 | | Sources: | Nearly identical in design, age, and condition to geringsing in Art Institute of Chicago, Nr. 2002.985, published in Khan-Majlis, The Art of Indonesian Textiles,to example in National Gallery of Australia depicted in Maxwell, Sari to Sarong, p. 62-63, and to example in McIntosh, Thread and Fire, Fig. 3.27. Another very similar piece in Khan Majlis, Indonesische Textilien, Wege zu Goettern und Ahnen, Fig. 328. Shinobu Yoshimoto. [add title, page.] Gittinger. showing similar piece in Splendid Symbols, Fig. 110 provides detailed information on imagery. From old Dutch collection. | | |
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