TWO EARLY 20TH CENTURY INDONESIAN KAUER (SUMATRA, LAMPUNG) E...

Hammer

£240

TWO EARLY 20TH CENTURY INDONESIAN KAUER (SUMATRA, LAMPUNG) EMBROIDERED COTTON JACKETS. From striped burnt orange and indigo cotton, one woven with striped silver thread and embroidered with two vertical panels and applied with mirrored sequins, the other embroidered with gold thread with a cross within a lozenge and applied with sequins, the indigo back panel embroidered with geometric motifs in gilt thread, each stitched with white shells to the collar, the first with red and yellow floral printed cotton lining and the other with cream cotton lining, approx. 30cm long (2)

Jackets of this type were made by Kauer women prior to marriage.

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Overall both jackets are extremely decorative and finely worked. The majority of the applied shells are present.

The example with embroidered gilt thread to front - with two holes to the cotton fabric at the back of neckline, there are several areas where the gold thread embroidery is loose/lacking to the front and with losses to sequins, the stitching under the arm is slightly loose. The second with some wear to collar, some tearing to lining, minor staining, some threads pulled, including to the underarm area. Some typical and relatively minor wear overall.