Textile fragment with garden scene
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with garden scene
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Associated place
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Date
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Material and technique
cotton, printed, and dyed brown, light-blue, and pink
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Object type
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Dimensions
36 x 28 cm max. (warp x weft)
22 / 26 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
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1990.1184
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Catalogue text
A garden scene with trees and a building, as well as a large bowl of fruit. The design is repeated in bands; it is light blue and pink, with light brown outlines on a white ground.
Selvedge. The reverse shows slightly less dye saturation than the surface. The textile is not Indian.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. 1180 on p. 356 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 356 fig. 1180
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