Textile fragment with leaves
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with leaves
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Associated place
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Date
probably 19th century (1801 - 1900) -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with mordant, dyed brown and red, and applied with light-blue dye; knotted fringe
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
17.5 x 17 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 22 / 22 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.
EA1990.1170
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Catalogue text
Small single leaves are arranged in diagonal rows. The leaves are light blue with a red spot at the base. In addition there is a border band with a continuous vine and flower, also light blue and red. All design elements have fine, brown outlines.
A knotted fringe along the border band. The pattern was stamped onto both sides of the fabric; the match is not entirely perfect. The textile is probably 19th century, printed in Rajasthan.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. 1166 on pp. 352-353 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 352 fig. 1166
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