Batik cloth
According to Buddhist legend in India, the Buddha’s half brother, Nanda, became a monk but so missed his new beautiful wife. Buddha takes him to a heavenly palace where he sees 500 maidens. Nothing on Earth is as perfect as that of heaven.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 511/2006/8
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Archives and images
- Collection Area Region
- S
- Material
- cottonpigment
- Common Name
- batik cloth
- Simple Name
- cloth
- Period Classification
- Modern (1945-)
- Production Country
- India
