Textile fragment with basket and tree
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with basket and tree
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Associated place
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Date
probably late 19th century -
Material and technique
cotton, printed and dyed yellow, brown, green, 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
73.5 x 78 cm max. (warp x weft)
22 / 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.
EA1990.1225
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Catalogue text
A blue, green, and brown basket has a tree growing from it, with flowers and fruit emerging. The large design is surrounded on four sides by a wide border with garlands of flowers. The background is yellow.
Two selvedges. The reverse shows slightly less dye saturation than the surface. The print is probably of late 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. 1219 on p. 369 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 369 fig. 1219
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