Tampan with Stylized Wedding Scene, fragment
Paminggir people, Lampung, Sumatra
Cotton; supplementary weft
Late 15th / Early 17th Century
15 x 14 in / 38 x 35.5 cm
An exceptionally rare and important pasisir ‘coastal’ wedding scene, the male with a keris and the female wearing a bridal veil. Although a fragment, it is still one of the finest tampan pasisir I have ever encountered.
Compare with the Fragment of a Ritual Weaving (Tampan), Yale University Art Gallery, Robert J. Holmgren and Anita E. Spertus Collection, Promised gift of Thomas Jaffe, B.A. 1971. ILE2006.4.126
