Textile fragment with baskets of flowers
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with baskets of flowers
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Associated place
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Date
probably 1831 - 1850 -
Material and technique
cotton, printed with mordant, possibly by machine, and dyed red, brown, and light-blue
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
25.5 x 12.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
25 / 16 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.
EA1990.1179
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Catalogue text
Baskets of flowers with ribbons attached. The design has brown outlines and is red, blue, and white on a red ground.
Selvedge; the design does not coincide with it. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The fabric may be machine printed. The pattern suggests a mid-19th-century or later date; the textile is not Indian.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. 1175 on p. 355 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 355 fig. 1175
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