Antique Cambodian Pidan
pidan (a temple-hanging consisting of a large rectangular panel of handwoven silk decorated with Buddhist themes)
silk cloth, consisting of uneven twill groundweave patterned with resist-dyed weft thread (a technique known as hol in Cambodia, as ikat elsewhere)
L 9ft. 6 1/4 in. W 2ft. 10 3/8 in. (detail only shown above)
Cambodia
age uncertain, perhaps first half 20th century
condition: very good
provenance: collected in Cambodia by Jack Daulton
Inv. no. 21
Subject matter: The Three Worlds (the Buddhist cosmology)
For a similar example of this iconography, see:
Gillian Green, Traditional Textiles of Cambodia: Cultural Threads and Material Heritage (Chicago: Buppha Press, 2003), p. 254, fig. 291.
detail 4:
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