Textile fragment with linked ovals, leaves, and berries
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with linked ovals, leaves, and berries
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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 red and purple; with stitching in cotton
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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 21 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 26 / 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.
EA1990.1208
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Catalogue text
Rows of linked ovals and tendrils alternate with naturalistic leaves and berries. The design is red and purple on a white ground.
Two stitches remain. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The textile 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. 1204 on pp. 364-365 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 364 fig. 1204
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