Title
Sarong Lien Metzelaar
Year/Period
Late 19th-early 20th century
Region
Java, Indonesia
Material
Dimension
Gross measurement: 104.8 x 213.5 cm
Accession No.
2011-02025
Collection of
This sarong features an array of motifs which includes humans, fan, flowers and umbrellas. Batik Belanda or batik made by the Dutch in Indonesia are historically important, reflecting that in the period of the late 19th-early 20th century, Peranakan women actually wore pieces made by Eurasian ladies and of different designs from the kind popular with the community today, that is the repeating bouquet motif. The wearing of batik made by Eurasian companies was also perhaps the physical manifestation of the elevated status of Peranakans with a new Dutch law that made them Dutch subjects in the Dutch East Indies.
