Textile fragment with chinoiserie pavilion, branches, and berries
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with chinoiserie pavilion, branches, and berries
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Associated place
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Date
19th century (1801 - 1900) -
Material and technique
cotton, probably machine printed, and dyed red, brown, and blue
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
20.5 x 18 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 24 / 18 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.
EA1990.1200
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Catalogue text
A chinoiserie scene showing a pavilion under branches and berries.
The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The fragment is not Indian; note the unusual s/z thread twist. It is of 19th-century date.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. 1196 on p. 362 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 362 fig. 1196
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