Specifications

• Length: 443,5 x 54 cm.
• Material: cotton
• Position:
• Gender:
• Indigenous name: poritutu roto
• Price realised: € 56.700,-

Provenance

Sam Josefowitz (1922-2015), Lausanne before1980; on loan to Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis; Sotheby’s, Paris 9-4-2021, lot 33.

Publications

Adams, Monni (1981), Threads of Life. A Private Collection of Textiles from Indonesia and Sarawak, plate 1.

Ref.: Holmgren, Robert J. & Anita E. Spertus (1989), Early Indonesian Textiles, 58-59, nr 23; Barnes, Ruth & Mary Hunt Kahlenberg (eds.) (2010), Five Centuries of Indonesian Textiles, 290-93, plate 78.

Exhibitions

The Katonah Gallery, Westchester, ‘Threads of Life’, 7 June – 26 July 1981, nr. 4.

Additional information

Pelangi technique, locally referred to as sudalangi (Bugis).

Photo credits

Sotheby’s, Paris