Title
Skirt cloth (kain sarong) with bird and flower design
circa 1920
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- Sarong piece with bird and flower design
- Place where the work was made
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Pekalongan
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Central Java
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Java
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Indonesia
- Cultural origin
- Eurasian
- Date
- circa 1920
- Media category
- Textile
- Materials used
- cotton, dyes; batik
- Dimensions
- 107.0 x 206.5 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Nomadic Rug Traders 2003
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 202.2003
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Eliza van Zuylen workshop
Works in the collection
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About
In the decades around 1900 Dutch and Eurasian women played an innovative role in batik production, establishing batik workshops along the north coast of Java. One of the most famous of these ateliers was directed by Eliza van Zuylen whose workshop operated in Pekalongan from 1890-1946. Her batiks catered to the tastes of the local Dutch, Eurasian and Chinese settlers as well as to the Western export market. Typically, these cloths were brightly coloured with naturalistic designs of birds and her trade mark bouquets of flowers "buketan".
Asian Art Department, June 2003.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Symbols and Ceremonies: Indonesian Textile Traditions, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Apr 2006–28 May 2006
Correspondence, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 10 Sep 2022–2024
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Provenance
Dominique Gardan, pre 1996, France, purchased by the Gardan family in Indonesia between 1920 and 1928. By descent to Dominique Gardan.
Ross Langlands, 1996-2003, Sydney/New South Wales/Australia, purchased from Dominique Gardan in 1996. Donated to the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, June 2003.
