Textile fragment with flying bird
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with flying bird
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Associated place
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Date
late 19th - early 20th century (1871 - 1930) -
Material and technique
cotton, printed with black, and dyed blue
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
19 x 17 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 24 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.
EA1990.1182
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Catalogue text
A flying bird, its head turning back. The bird is white with black outlines on a blue ground.
The fabric is very loosely woven from thin thread. There is no reason to give it an Indian provenance.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. 1178 on p. 356 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 356 fig. 1178
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