Textile fragment with circles, interlace, and tendrils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with circles, interlace, and tendrils
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Associated place
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Date
late 19th - early 20th century (1871 - 1930) -
Material and technique
cotton, printed and dyed black and pink
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
33.5 x 8 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 26 / 30 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.
EA1990.1203
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Catalogue text
Black circles partly filled with interlace and thin tendrils. The background is white and pink.
The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The fragment is of uncertain 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. 1199 on p. 363 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 363 fig. 1199
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