Textile fragment with naturalistic flowers
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with naturalistic 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, printed, probably by machine, and dyed red, pink, white, black, and light-blue; with stitching in silk
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Object type
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Dimensions
21.5 x 8.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 28 / 31 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.
EA1990.1215
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Catalogue text
Various sprigs of naturalistic flowers, pink with red outlines and white highlights. The stems and leaves are black and light blue.
The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The fabric is apparently machine woven, of uncertain provenance but produced for Western taste.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. 1211 on p. 366 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 366 fig. 1211
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