The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of January 27, 2023

Hip Wrapper (tapis)

1800–1850

India, Coromandel Coast, 1st half 19th Century

Cotton; plain weave; block printed, drawn resist, painted mordants, dyed

Overall: 265.5 x 109.2 cm (104 1/2 x 43 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 2000.32

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

"16" embroidered in India

Provenance
Made for export to Indonesia, collected by vendor in South Sumatra, Indonesia; called sembagi, a term used in South Sumatra for multicolored cloths from the Coromandel Coast
Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2000.32