Textile fragment with naturalistic linked flowers
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with naturalistic linked flowers
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Associated place
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Date
late 19th - early 20th century (1871 - 1930) -
Material and technique
cotton, machine woven and printed, and dyed pink and red; with stitching in white cotton and black thread, possibly cotton
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Object type
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Dimensions
27 x 5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 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.
EA1990.1212
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Catalogue text
A band of flowers and leaves, identical to Cat. no. 1207 [EA1990.1211].
The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The fabric was originally part of the previous textile [EA1990.1211].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. 1208 on p. 365 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 365 fig. 1208
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