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Cotton altar cloth by Oei Khing Liem with flower baskets, tigers and deer
Chinese altar cloth, intended for an ancestral altar indoors. The cloth is divided into two planes, one above the other. The upper plane is as big as 1/3 of the lower plane. In this upper plane are baskets with grapes, other fruit and flowers. The lower plane contains two deer and two tigers around a circle with two more fabulous animals in it.‖ Peranakan depiction of animals and plants are not bo…
Type of item
- Tokwi
- Dress
Date
- ca. 1930
- 1930~
Medium
- Material: cotton
- cotton (fiber)
- Cotton
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Creation date
- 1925/1935
Provenance
- Aankoop
- 1996-11-01
Identifier
- TM-5663-929
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/europeana-fashion/170402
Format
- Technique: weave
- weave
Is part of
- Europeana XX: Century of Change
Is related to
- ambergris
- wax
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2020-03-31T16:16:09.268Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2021-10-20T13:51:01.552Z