Wall Hanging or Ceiling Canopy (early 1900s): Art, History and Details

Wall Hanging or Ceiling Canopy (early 1900s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

The silk wefts of this textile were resist dyed with a design of elephants, temples, large tigers (?), sacred trees, and humans before the textile was woven. Both the weft-ikat technique and the motifs reveal the influence of Indian textiles, particularly patola. The dark reddish-maroon color of the ground, however, was not produced by over-dyeing, as in India and Bali, but by the combination of red wefts with black warps. This silk was made to serve as a wall hanging or ceiling canopy in a Buddhist temple.

Object facts

• Title: Wall Hanging or Ceiling Canopy
• Date: early 1900s
• Culture: Cambodia, Khmer People, early 20th century
• Type: Textile
• Technique: tabby weave, weft ikat; silk
• Dimensions: Overall: 90.2 x 205.7 cm (35 1/2 x 81 in.)
• Collection: Textiles
• Department: Textiles
• Accession number: 1925.118

Collection credit

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

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