Textile fragment with plants and dots
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with plants and dots
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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 light-blue and red
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
25 x 14 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 16 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.
EA1990.1206
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Catalogue text
A continuous field of small, red dots, and large plants with three stems emerging from four leaves. The background is light blue.
The fabric is loosely woven from thin thread. Dye saturation is equal on the surface and reverse.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. 1202 on p. 364 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 364 fig. 1202
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