Textile fragment with tear-drops filled with scales, and stylized trees and flowers
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with tear-drops filled with scales, and stylized trees and flowers
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Associated place
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Date
probably 18th century (1701 - 1800)
Ottoman Period (1281 - 1924) -
Material and technique
linen, block-printed, and applied with grey
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Object type
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Dimensions
21 / 20 threads/cm (thread count) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
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Museum location
not on display
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1990.467
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Catalogue text
A wide border with stylized trees and flowers, and a large design field with pear shapes, filled with scale design, and with eight-petalled rosettes dyed purple, as well as very small five-petalled rosettes, both types with red centres. The pattern is generally grey against a white ground, but the stylized trees of the border have an internal flowering plant that is white against the grey tree shape.
Selvedge. The reverse shows little dye saturation. Ottoman, probably 18th century.In: Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997)
Further reading
Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997), no. 460 on p. 135 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 135, vol. ii p. 135 fig. 460
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