NATIONAL COLLECTION X MUSEUM MARTKET LACQUER COASTER SET OF 6 (AVAILABLE END MAY 2024)

BEDSPREAD (KAIN SPREI)

Indonesia, early 20th century

Cotton (drawn batik)

Collection of Peranakan Museum

2014-00951

The ambi (tear-drop shape) and Tree of life motifs on this textile reveal connections to Indian cloths traded to Southeast Asia from the 13th century onward. Auspicious Chinese symbols like phoenixes, peonies and butterflies point to the role they played in Peranakan wedding celebrations.

SARONG

Java, Cirebon, 1900-10

Cotton (drawn batik)

Collection of Peranakan Museum

2015-02114

This colour combination of blue and white batik sarong is known as kelengan. The front panel of the sarong is decorated by triangle patterns known as tumpal with birds like chickens and phoenixes filling the background of the cloth. Along the borders of the tumpal filled section of the sarong are fret patterns, a decorative feature commonly found on Chinese ceramics and furniture.

Batik sarong were worn by Peranakan Chinese in the Strait Settlements and Indonesia as  a skirt of acoompany a top known as kebaya.

SKIRT CLOTH (KAIN PANJANG) THE TIE SIET

Java, Pekalongan, 1930s

Cotton (drawn batik)

Collection of Peranakan Museum

2018-00647

This pink-and-aqua batik kain panjang (skirtcloth) features the pagi-sore (morning-afternoon) format, where two different patterns and colours are divided by a diagonal or straight line at the center. The wearer could choose which side of the design to be visible according to the time of day and occasion. The batik is signed " The Tiet Siet Pekalongan " by the famed Peranakan Pekalongan-based batik-maker. This piece illustrates his characteristic use of bold colours and floral bouquets (peonies and chrysanthemums on each side respectively), with birds and butterflies flying around them. Peonies are associated with female beauty, and chrysathemums are associated with longevity and nobility. Peranakan ladies favoured batik skirtcloths made mostly by Chinese and Eurasian batik-makers on the northern coast of Java in towns such as Cirebon, Lasem and Pekalongan. 

SARONG

Java, 1900-20

Cotton (drawn batik)

Collection of Peranakan Museum

2015-02120

This colour combination of blue and white batik sarong is known as kelengan. The body of the sarong decorated by large lotus buds while the front panel is decorated by patch-work designs, know as tambal motifs.

Batik sarongs were worn by Peranakan Chinese in the Straits Settlements and Indonesia as a skirt to accompany a top known as a kebaya.

BATIK SKIRTCLOTH WITH BIRDS, BOATS AND AEROPLANES MOTIFS

Pekalongan, northern coast of Java, 1960s

Textile

Collection of Asian Civilisations Museum

2010-03486

This sarong is in a style known as kompanie batik, one of the most unique batik styles developed in Indonesia in the early nineteenth century, during the Dutch colonial period. The patterns and motifs blended Indonesian and European visual sensibilities . Modern images of aeroplanes and ships are portrayed in a fantastical style alongside birds and fish.

SARONG, OEY KOK SING

(NEE KHO TJING NIO), 1896-1966

Java, Pekalongan,1940

Cotton (drawn batik), synthetic dyes

Collection of Peranakanan Museum

2017-00341

Gift of Ika, Melia, and Inge Hendromartono in memory of their parents Liem Siok Hien and Jane Hendromartono, grandmother Mrs Oey Kok Sing, and grandmother Mrs Oey Soen King

Oey Kok Sing was the daughter of Oey Soen King. She embraced the use of synthetic dyes, which were available in Java by the late 19th century .

Dimension of each coaster: 10x10x6cm.