Textile fragment with swirling leaves and flowers
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with swirling leaves and flowers
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue; with stitching in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
20 x 11.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 19 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.
EA1990.52
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Catalogue text
Irregular leaf-shapes, as in Cat. no. 41 [EA1990.49], but here arranged around a central eight-petalled flower which has another flower inside. The leaf-shapes are defined by the resist against a blue background, the flower is blue against white.
Some stitching.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. 44 on p. 12 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 12-13, vol. ii p. 12 fig. 44
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