Textile fragment with bird, flowers, and buta
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with bird, flowers, and buta
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Associated place
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Date
19th century (1801 - 1900) -
Material and technique
cotton, printed and dyed purple
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
11 x 10 cm (length x width)
along length/width 24 / 20 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.
EA1990.1213
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Catalogue text
A flying bird, flowers with fine stems, and boteh designs, all light purple on a white ground.
The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The textile is of uncertain provenance, 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. 1209 on p. 365 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 365 fig. 1209
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